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Collecting COVID - NHM Calls for 1st-Person Accounts


*The event has already taken place on this date: Tue, 06/30/2020
What do you want future generations to know about life in the time of COVID-19? New Haven Museum is asking Greater New Haven residents to share details on how they are being affected via a new initiative, “Documenting the COVID-19 Crisis." We are asking our fellow New Haveners to help us document the local ramifications of the global event. The stories we capture today will explain this unprecedented time to our children, our grandchildren, and to unknown generations to come. When it is safe to do so, NHM will also collect objects relating to COVID-19, including schoolwork, art, journals, homemade masks, takeout menus, signs, window hearts, and more. For now, individuals can share them with the Museum’s staff by uploading photos items from their daily lives that represent social distancing and other routine practices that are defining the “new normal.”

Please help us keep this calendar up to date! If this activity is sold out, canceled, or otherwise needs alteration, email mindy@kidsoutandabout.com so we can update it immediately. If you have a question about the activity itself, please contact the organization administrator listed below.

“So often we look back and wish we could ask previous generations about the events they witnessed and lived through,” says Executive Director, Margaret Anne Tockarshewsky. “The stories and photos we capture today will illustrate this unprecedented time for our children’s children and for generations to come.”

Share your COVID-19 experiences in this brief questionnaire and upload photos on the “Documenting the COVID-19 Crisis” page: https://www.newhavenmuseum.org/covid19/ Questions include asking for details on how respondents’ lives have been affected by the virus, their responses to the situation, and advice to share with future generations coping with similar situations.

NHM is responsible for documenting and preserving Elm City history, and personal, first-person accounts are the backbone of the museum’s research library, exhibitions, and school and public programs.

 

 


*Times, dates, and prices of any activity posted to our calendars are subject to change. Please be sure to click through directly to the organization’s website to verify.

Location:

New Haven Museum
114 Whitney Ave
New Haven, CT, 06510
United States

Phone:

203-562-4183
Contact name: 
Donna Wardle
Email address: 
The event has already taken place on this date: 
06/30/2020
Time: 
12:00 am
Price: 
free

Ages

All Ages Adults & kids together Adults without kids