This gallery of the museum is dedicated to writing and visual art exploring the individual and collective experiences of life during the COVID-19 pandemic, from its early days in spring 2020 to current day experiences.

In the dystopian novel Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel, a small band of survivors sheltered in place in an airport terminal. One of these survivors founded a Museum of Civilization in the defunct Skymiles Lounge. The first artifact: a cell phone that was a shell of its former self (no electricity to charge it, no cable towers, no internet...). This was followed by a laptop similarly devoid of usefulness, an Amex card, and a pair of red stilletos (yes, that riveted my attention). It got me thinking that a museum is needed to document and immortalize our experiences, collectively and individually, of this unprecedented time we are living in and hopefully through: the global COVID-19 pandemic.  

 

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