Our Museum of Us:  Curating Your Family’s Stuff into a Digital Future

Experience a hands-on workshop with Dr. Mark Standley.  

Sometimes our stuff possesses us, as much as we possess it.  We accumulate stuff over the course of our lives in our ‘hills of enough’. We have stories about our things, but don’t always take time to share them with others.

At the lecture hall in Guadalupe Basin Natural Resources Center at 125 Lehmann Drive in Kerrville.

Sometimes our stuff possesses us, as much as we possess it. As we accumulate treasures and objects over the course our lives, we come to value the stories and experiences they reflect, but don’t take time to curate things in our “My Museum of Me.” Stories, experiences, and values are lost when the objects are misplaced in time, locked away in storage units, or discarded at the end of one’s life.

Mark Standley’s book proposes families engage in the process of curation, which includes listening to elders’ stories about their things, making digital stories to archive the values these items hold for their owner(s) and keep these digital stories for generations to come. In short, create an “Our Museum of Us.”

His book, Our Museum of Us, Curating Your Family’s Past Into a Digital Future, includes: Curation Notes, Resources for Each Chapter, Links to the Our Museum of Us YouTube channel, Values Index, and Book of Question for Families as a tool to get started on Curation and Digital Storytelling. He will have books available for purchase at the meeting.

Dr. Mark will be speaking at a public online event about his book Our Museum of Us.

Facebook Event Page

Zoom Link

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