Masks used, certificates of the output, inventions, unusual or memories virtual : the Museum of civilisations from Europe and the Mediterranean (Mucem) in Marseille has received more than 500 proposals for its collection of objects of “daily life” contained use”.
on April 20, The museum had launched an appeal for donations of objects “witnesses”, to “collect the traces of this milestone moment” of the confinement, which lasted from the 17 march until 11 may, he said in a press release.
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To keep track of these two months if singular, 540 people have sent photos of their proposed gift to the museum. These originate mainly in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’azur, but also from other regions of france, or even Spain, united arab Emirates, Egypt, and China. Certificates of release, visors, masks, home-made with an “aesthetic value in particular” : some donors have chosen parts, “normal”, become “essential” to their daily lives, says the museum, which will reopen its doors on June 29.
pots and Pans, and intimate letters
Number of proposals is also attached to the objects related to the support displayed to the world, caring for the containment. “There are banners attached to windows in order to thank doctors, nurses and caregivers, pans, wooden spoons or other utensils movies used to show this support at the “meetings” of 20h in the cities or even a sound recording of the applause in the daily newspapers’, describes the museum.
But the Museum has also received other proposals more creative, imagined for a period of time “conducive to the invention of useful items to a new way of life”. With, for example, is a list of animals seen through the window, for an invention to restore the glasses over the masks or a zip-line connecting two neighboring buildings.
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many sound recordings, screen shots of messages or digital exchanges have also been sent in, witnesses to a “change in deep and brutal social relations”, such as a family reunion and the virtual organized on the day of a cancelled wedding. Some donors have chosen to send letters or writings intimate, telling stories that are sometimes difficult, and each had to accompany his object, a text describing its importance for the containment.
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the science team of The Mucem will select the best proposals before the end of the month of June, and the objects will then be studied by a commission to make their entry in the national collections. To build the memory of this health crisis, museums, and archives have launched collections a little everywhere in France, in connection with researchers who décortiqueront the manner in which it was experienced daily.
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The solution : reserve the use of surgical masks for caregivers only , the masks tissues for the other . Since the civic is not there, we will have clean streets
Bank Gauchele 09/06/2020 at 08:25
Ah, the “culture” in Marseille, it still has the art of making intelligent. When we see their candidates to municipal governments and their elected officials, all is explained !
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