Originally streamed: April 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound impact on the province. The Royal Alberta Museum began collecting objects right away to make sure the museum would be able to interpret that experience to audiences of the future. In this talk we’ll explore what is called “rapid response collecting,” and why it is so important to do it.

Speaker bio:

Pat Myers is the Curator, Work Life and Industry, at the Royal Alberta Museum. She has spent her career in heritage in Alberta, and has worked on teams developing historic sites, and preserving heritage buildings. She is the author of several publications on Alberta history, and contributed to the centennial history of Alberta, Alberta Formed/Alberta Transformed.