Unprecedented times - like a pandemic - need to be captured for posterity.
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Albury Library Museum has started Collecting COVID-19, an outreach project inviting people to submit items that highlight the unique nature of the past 18 months.
Contributions could include photographs, objects, arts and crafts, diaries or journals, with some pictures, handmade cloth masks and hand sanitiser bottles already collected.
Museum co-ordinator Emma Williams said the program also wanted people such as school students or business owners to share stories about their experiences.
"We're documenting history as we're living it," Ms Williams said.
"We'd also like to host an online exhibition of people's photos, a bit of a collective response."
Signs of the times could include the floor stickers spelling out social distancing or teddy bears in windows.
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"Certainly that flavour of cross border issues like permits and, you know, queues at the border, which we never thought would happen again.
Submissions can be made online or by ringing Albury Library Museum on (02) 6023 8333.
The project may not be able to accept everything offered.
"It can be things that might not seem like history, but absolutely we're documenting it for the future," Ms Williams said.
"So people in 100 years' time know what it was like for us just like we know what it was like in 1919 during the Spanish flu pandemic because of the photos we have in the collection."
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