We have reached an era when events unfold fast. Museums that have traditionally provided a record for the future generations are struggling to keep up. On the November 24^th the PBS Newshour published an interesting report by Ivette Feliciano looking at how some museums are experimenting with curating our era of social movements in real time through use of some fascinating technologies. From PBS Newshour:

As Black Lives Matter protests erupted in 2014 after a police officer killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in D.C. sent curators to collect t-shirts and gas masks — artifacts it could preserve to inform future generations. From the push-back to President Trump’s immigrant family separation policy to viral social media posts, it and other museums are anticipating the value of documenting unrest in real time.

The transcript of this video on curating social movements can be found here. The report lasts about 5 minutes. Take a look: