Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County

As part of last year’s exhibit on emergency preparedness, the Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County handed out safety kits to visitors.

“We distributed masks last year. How weird is that?” executive director Kat Burkhart said.

Now more than six months into the community’s new reality, the museum is building a collection of items documenting the coronavirus pandemic — from newspaper articles and political mailings to hand washing signs.

The collection also captures the voices of Montgomery County’s younger citizens: children whose memories of the pandemic’s earlier days play out in their pictures of “MoCo Superheroes” and in postcards documenting their time spent at home.

This summer, when the museum had to change plans for its regular school break program, families could pick up activity bags with coloring sheets of masked figures that children filled in with the faces of inspirational people like parents and firefighters.

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