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    The Covid Collectors

    Oct 18, 2021 3 minutes
    BY JOHN SUMMERS

    Which objects best represent the Covid-19 pandemic? What do we associate with lockdown? With MIQ or with vaccination? These are not rhetorical questions. For the last year and a bit, the curators of New Zealand’s museums have been amassing a mix of photographs, art, ephemera and official leaflets in their effort to document strange times. The practice is known as contemporary collecting, trying to anticipate what might be useful to researchers of the future.

    As the national museum, Te Papa has been

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