Curators from the Smithsonian will be diving for balloons, scooping up signs and hoping to score some hot dish at the #DNC this week.
We talked to three of them about how they select items to be used in the future to explain what's going on now (republished on @medium) https://medium.com/@ConversationUS/how-smithsonian-curators-scavenge-political-conventions-to-explain-the-present-to-the-future-d90a8cb99f80 #News #USPolitics #DNC2024 @histodons