Bainbridge Island Historical Museum seeking COVID-19 articles

April 26, 2020 10:30 am
A sign posted by a Bainbridge Island resident on Pleasant Beach Drive NE. The Bainbridge Island Historical Museum has started to collect photographs and other items from residents to document the COVID-19 crisis on the island. (Photo courtesy of the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum)
A sign posted by a Bainbridge Island resident on Pleasant Beach Drive NE. The Bainbridge Island Historical Museum has started to collect photographs and other items from residents to document the COVID-19 crisis on the island. (Photo courtesy of the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum)

There are historic times.

And the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum is making sure to preserve some pieces of it.

Museum officials note that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Bainbridge community is unprecedented, and has changed the way we work, socialize, shop, study, communicate and play.

“At the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum, we recognize our unique responsibility as the historians of this moment in time. We are actively documenting and collecting materials related to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic experience on Bainbridge Island,” museum officials said in a quest for historical donations this week.

The museum is asking for photographs, personal items made or purchased to adapt to the COVID-19 quarantine, and visual or written creative expressions about the pandemic.

Residents are also being encouraged to document and share stories about their family’s experience during the pandemic.

People who have items to donate to the museum’s collection can email Director of Exhibits & Engagement Merilee Mostov at merilee@bainbridgehistory.org.

The museum is reminding residents that it remains closed to the public, so drop-off materials are not being collected at this time. Also, relplies to individual emails may be delayed for up to two weeks due to the volume of the responses.