I finally toured the old steel mill museum and my thermal glove got donated to the display case by accident.

Now every school group points at my slightly toasted glove like it's a RELIC from the industrial age.

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Just imagining the little plaque they probably put next to it now. "A worker's essential thermal glove, slightly singed from the intense heat of... well, the parking lot asphalt in July." Mine has a way better backstory than the actual 19th century rivet next to it.

ramirez.john3d ago

Future museums will just be displays of our lost AirPods.

casey9622d ago

What makes an object worth keeping in a museum anyway? I always thought it had to be old or rare, like that 19th century rivet. But @chen.nora's point about the glove's backstory really made me rethink that. A singed work glove from a hot day says more about real life than some old piece of metal we know nothing about. It's the stories and people behind things that give them meaning, not just their age. Maybe future museums will be better because they'll show what our daily lives were actually like.