Yesterday, on July 23rd, the exhibit titled Tech Savvy, opened to the public! It was very exciting. So exciting, in fact, that I took my mom and grandma to the Museum of Arts and Sciences to check out the exhibit in order to see how it would be received by the public. Finishing up the exhibit on Friday was a huge relief, as the project had been going on longer than I had been interning there. In fact, one of the first things that I did was write up a label on a vacuum from 1911 that ended up in one of the two vignettes in the exhibit. It was super cool to see a bunch of labels that I wrote up on display in the exhibit. In general, it was incredibly neat to be a part of that process and to work with a bunch of artifacts like the old typewriters, cameras, and phonographs.

One of the goals of the exhibit is to spark nostalgia from people, to get a reaction that makes them go “oh, yeah, my mom used to have one of those in her living room!” or something akin to that. Going to the exhibit with my family (ages 70 and 90), I got reactions like that to a few things, and it was very satisfying. Now that the exhibit is up, it will stay up for a few more months. A couple of my friends said that they’re going to try and stop by to see it, which is super cool! It’s fun to be a part of something that’s going to continue to be on display after I leave, even if it’s only for a little bit.