Face masks and slippers: how museums worldwide are preserving Covid-19 life


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More than 900 pieces of work have already been submitted to the Covid Art Museum - an Insta-museum - from around the world.

Would you put your slippers on display? The global coronavirus pandemic is still raging but museums are already gathering testimony and objects to remember life under lockdown.

"It's such an extraordinary experience," said Beatrice Behlen, senior curator at the Museum of London.

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