Chicago Museum asks public to help curate 10,000 PH artifacts

The Chicago Field Museum, one of the largest natural history museums in the work, recently launched a campaign – 10,000 kwentos (10,000 stories) – to identify 10,000 Philippine artifacts in its possession. The campaign, in partnership with the Filipino-American community, will ask the public to “co-curate” the pieces housed in the museum. Among the collection are weapons, armor, hunting tools, pottery and rolls of old fabric. Community members are given the opportunity to photograph 8,000 artifacts from the collection. Images are then uploaded onto a custom web portal to allow the public to comment on collection items. The process will allow the curators of the collection co-curate information about the artifacts with the community. Chicago is home to over 100,000 Filipinos and Filipino-Americans.


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