Rapid-Response Collecting After The Pulse Nightclub Massacre

Keywords

Condolence collections; Disaster planning; Emergency planning; Lgbtq; Mass violence; Massacre; Morale; Oral history; Pulse Nightclub

Abstract

Five collections and exhibitions professionals from the Orange County Regional History Center, a history museum located in downtown Orlando, Florida, reveal their experiences developing the One Orlando Collection in the wake of the June 12, 2016, Pulse Nightclub massacre. Within days of the event, they began to collect thousands of Pulse-related objects left at public memorials or donated to the museum. Examining the origins of the project through the challenges of field collection, the effect the team's work had on the community, decisions around exhibiting collected objects, and the professional and emotional impacts the job had on the team, this article suggests what other museum professionals in similar situations may be faced with should the unimaginable happen.

Publication Date

2-1-2018

Publication Title

Public Historian

Volume

40

Issue

1

Number of Pages

105-114

Document Type

Review

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2018.40.1.105

Socpus ID

85042728789 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85042728789

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