Evansville Museum Opens Covid-19 Exhibit

Evansville Museum Opens Covid-19 Exhibit

For the evansville museum of arts history and science-- more and more visitors coming back -- after reopening this summer.

And they're hoping to increase those numbers starting sunday with a brand new exhibit focusing on the pandemic.

44news reporter marisa patwa joins us from the museum with more.

Good afternoon.

You know the curators here at the museum have been working all summer long on this new exhibition -- life in isolation: the coronavirus -- really wanting to make sure that the community has a picture to capture what everyone has been going through during the pandemic.

As soon as the museum shut down in march -- the art and history curators got to work gathering photographs and artifacts not just locally but internationally -- from personal protective equipment actually designed by artists for health care workers, to used masks and closing signs.

And the evansville museum is one of the leading institutions across the county opening pandemic exhibits -- even starting their collection a month before the smithsonian and those behind the local exhibit say they are honored to have the chance to help tell the story of the suffering and triumph that has taken place as communities have come together.

"through visual representation we can have a better understanding of the humanistic experience.

And hopefully the scientific research will catch up at that time too.

And we will have a vaccine and cure but there always is a human component to those types of pandemic.

It has a face, it has a persona and it deserves to be recorded in human history."

Now as the pandemic is still going on, the curators here say they are still open to other artifacts being introduced into the exhibit and for those who want to check it out on sunday, adult tickets are twelve dollars.

Reporting in evansville marisa patwa 44news.