Pandemic stories shared in museum exhibit
People are being invited to submit their personal experiences of the Covid-19 crisis to form part of an online exhibition by the National Museum of Bermuda.
United Together: Sharing Bermuda’s Covid-19 Pandemic Stories is a collection of electronic recollections designed to show how the public has coped over the pandemic.
Elena Strong, the museum’s executive director, said: “The global Covid-19 pandemic has reshaped the way we live.
“As we rapidly adapt to a new way of life, we are mindful of the toll that this virus has taken on us as individuals and as a community.”
She told the public: “We are living history right now. Documenting and preserving this moment and your experiences of it are incredibly important.”
Examples of early submissions include a photograph of a grocery store queue, recordings of virtual school lessons, drawings of empty streets and offices and diagrams that outline how to make face masks.
Ms Strong said: “Help your National Museum of Bermuda keep a record of what it was like to live through these times — we look forward to seeing your submissions.”
Journal entries, photos, videos, drawings, songs and poems can be posted to Instagram, Facebook or Twitter with the hashtag #UnitedTogetherBDA. Tag the National Museum of Bermuda.
Submissions can also be made by e-mail to curator@nmb.bm with the subject heading United Together: My Story.
Ms Strong said the museum would not accept objects at present, but added that people should retain items for donation when it reopened.