The project
The COVID-19 pandemic involved humanity in its entirety. Like any macro-event, it has affected each of us differently: who fell ill, who lost a loved one, who their jobs, who put themselves on the front line. Everyone felt it differently. Reflecting the global dimension as well as the prismatic nature of this event is the main aim of this museum.
History VS Memory
The emergency from COVID-19 that hit the world is perhaps the first moment in history in which nobody can call himself a spectator.
However, it's difficult, as humans, to clearly judge a global event based only on our individual perspective.
It's equally difficult to distinguish in our mind between what actually happened and our memory about it.
Virtual Museum
Critically pproaching this historical moment is a difficult task, but opens up entirely new scenarios.
We want to collect as many different testimonies as possible to transmit the autenticity of this moment to the future, but without falling for them. How?
A Virtual Museum may be able to give clarity, to state and protect what was real, to preserve our memories and the same time help processing them without forgetting the history.
Collective Memory
This museum houses diverse witnesses, different perspectives, various individual experiences. It's an open and inclusive project for gaining actual wisdom for ourselves in the future. Narrating a collective story from individual memories it's like a chorus. And like a chorus of voices we want to transmit an inclusive, choral memory of the most important collective experience we have ever lived.
Build together
The collective dimension is the real essence of this period and this museum. Quarantine, fear, the need to deal with a new normal have involved everyone, firsthand. And we are all called to witness it for the next generations.
If you want, collaborate and submit memories to be displayed.
History is made by the ones who lived it. Let's tell it this way too.
The COVID-19 emergency
Starting from the first months of the 2020, the COVID-19 emergency wave has enlarged worldwide, overwhelming the global population.
More strongly or weakly, the pandemic hasn't spared any country around the world, threatening it still today.
