Occupy Is Sexy, Sounds Hip: Museums Collect #OWS Artifacts, Plan Exhibitions

[David Kay, MLS]

"Occupy Wall Street may still be working to shake the notion it
represents a passing outburst of rage, but some establishment
institutions have already decided the movement’s artifacts are worthy
of historic preservation. More than a half-dozen major museums and
organizations from the Smithsonian Institution to the New-York
Historical Society have been avidly collecting materials produced by
the Occupy movement. . . . The Museum of the City of New York is
planning an exhibition on Occupy for next month.

“Occupy is sexy,” said Ben Alexander, who is head of special
collections and archives at Queens College in New York, which has been
collecting Occupy materials. “It sounds hip. A lot of people want to
be associated with it.” To keep established institutions from shaping
the movement’s short history, protesters have formed their own archive
group, stashing away hundreds of cardboard signs, posters, fliers,
buttons, periodicals, documents and banners in temporary storage while
they seek a permanent home for the materials.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/museums-collecting-occupy-wall-street-artifacts-article-1.996617

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