Mattatuck Museum is collecting and documenting how COVID-19 has affected local community

The Mattatuck Museum is collecting and documenting how COVID-19 has affected our local community. By preserving local responses and the impact on Waterbury and surrounding residents, the Mattatuck Museum will be helping future researchers understand the local impact of these trying times.

To complement newspaper articles, local government press releases, and other traditional archival material that we will be collecting, the Mattatuck Museum is also looking to document people’s everyday lives and how COVID-19 has affected them.

What does your life look like now? How are you protecting yourself/your family? What kinds of activities are you doing to pass the time? How are you celebrating birthdays/holidays? What do you think people should remember about this time? 

Your voice and your experience matter to us. Please consider contributing to their collection! To Participate click here

What the Mattatuck Museum is looking for:
- Written narratives about your and/or your family’s experiences during COVID-19.
- Photographs of you and/or your family during isolation
- Photographs of artwork about COVID-19, or artwork created during COVID-19.
- Short videos can also be included.

What they aren’t collecting:
Please don’t include specific and personal medical information. Medical information is protected and private.

If you have a physical object that you would like to donate to the museum that either represents your experiences with COVID-19, or is an object you've used to protect yourself, please email Collections Manager, Wayne Eldred at wayne@mattmuseum.org. (Please include image(s) and description of the objects(s) in email correspondence.)