PROGRAM POSTPONED - NEW DATE TBA

What is an artifact? What makes something "worthy" of being included and preserved for posterity in museum's collection? The answers to this question may surprise you.

As part of our new collecting initiative in 2021, we are asking for your help to gather and preserve the stories of the greater Hayward Area. We have a lot of treasures in our collections already, but we need your help to fully tell the diverse and overlapping stories of our community.

In this workshop, Director/Curator Diane Curry and Archivist John Christian will share more about what types of items, images and objects make for a good artifact donation. Often it is the small moments of everyday life, the ones that are not often remembered or recorded, that can be the most valuable and illuminating. This workshop is open to all, and will offer a rare opportunity to learn what really goes on behind the scenes of a museum, including how we catalog and care for your precious donated artifacts.

To register for this Zoom presentation, email education@haywardareahistory.org.