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Short, true cards about the people, subjects, and ideas held in local collections — every one ends somewhere you can actually go.
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Cards here are written about the people and subjects held across all the partner collections — including holdings that are not on public display in the catalogue — and each one is approved by a curator before it appears. While the first cards are prepared, the exhibitions are the seed content:
Why you will never see the catalogue here
A collection holds far more than it can publish: items that are private, fragile, mid-research, or simply waiting their turn. So this feed does something else. It reads the collections as a whole and writes cards about what they are about — a novelist, a naturalist, an idea — in the holdings' own neighbourhood. The card is the teaser; the collection is the destination. If a subject catches you, the way to connect with it is the oldest one there is: go and stand in front of the real thing.
Every card is drafted with AI help and approved by a person before it appears. Sign-in is the existing Collections account for now; Facebook sign-in is a later phase, and this page does not pretend otherwise.
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