The Royal Alberta Museum, the Okotoks Museum and Archives and the Glenbow Museum are documenting the coronavirus outbreak as it happens with physical and digital items
Kathy Coutts at the Okotoks Museum is putting out a public call for stories and photos from local residents on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected them, seen here in Okotoks, Alta., on May 19, 2020.Alberta museums are collecting artifacts related to the pandemic, such as photographs, hand sanitizer bottles and homemade face mask patterns, as they work to record life in the province during the COVID-19 outbreak.
“We have records at the archives that date back to the Spanish flu,” Ms. Coutts said. “If no one took the time to document what they went through, we wouldn’t really understand how the community was affected by the Spanish flu.” “When you realize that you’re living in historic times … that can be a little bit disorientating," Ms. Petrov said. “You don’t have a context for this because you haven’t experienced it before.
“There’s nothing that compares with that personal, first-person perspective and hearing an experience from another person’s voice,” Ms. Conway Fisher said.
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