MTC Reads 2024-2025: The Stories We Tell & The Objects We Keep

The Awkward Heirloom: No One Wants Grandma’s Fur (WSJ): An exploration of the challenges families face in deciding what to do with inherited items.

Sorry Parents, Nobody Wants the Family Heirlooms (Apartment Therapy): This article discusses the challenges families face in deciding what to do with inherited items.

Sanitation Worker Built a Collection of Objects from Trash (Artsy): A sanitation worker's collection of objects rescued from the trash tells stories of urban life and history.

Preservation Week: Trash or Treasure? (The Family Curator): Advice on deciding which personal items to keep and how to preserve them.

Why Do People Collect? The Psychologist’s View (Andrew Dillon): Andrew Dillon examines the psychological motivations behind collecting and the stories objects can tell.

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Video panel What we throw away: How trash is changing and what that means (The Capitol Times, Madison Wisconsin): A video panel discussing how trash is changing and what that means for our understanding of objects.