Curators Trying To Collect History As It Happens Are Pretty Busy These Days

For instance, after the nightclub shooting in Orlando, a curator and her staff "drove a van through the streets in the weeks after the shooting, collecting drawings, cards and other objects from impromptu memorials, and putting up signs explaining that the tributes were being taken to a museum. Later, when the crime scene investigators were finished, she returned and persuaded the owner of the nightclub to let her have for the collection a bullet-riddled door from the bathroom and a cabinet where people had hidden."

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