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Posted on August 8, 2019January 2, 2021

Here lies everything we can’t remember but should never forget*

The deeper I get into this project, the less I seem to understand my father. If my keeping Michael’s stuff around is a way of also keeping him around, an unwillingness to let go just yet, what does it mean that he carried all this around himself as he accumulated it? What did he think …

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Michael Sand (1940-2013), was a prolific museum designer and educator who helped pioneer the use of hands-on and technology-driven practices in museums and other learning environments. The Michael Sand Archives contains thousands of Michael’s business and design documents, photographs, media, correspondence, and other material dating back to the early 1960s. The collection is a unique reflection of the collaborative and experimental nature of the design field, and the radical evolution of museum design in the twentieth century.

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