the venice heritage museum’s community archives

Our Community Archives Initiative invites longtime locals to bring their personal photographs, documents, and stories to the museum to be considered for inclusion among VHM’s holdings.

Our current and future collecting prioritizes stories underrepresented in the existing scholarship and publications about Venice. ​From the experience of working-class communities of color in Venice to counterculture histories to Venice’s role in the rise of surf and skate culture, the museum’s archives intend to mirror the many overlaps and intersections in the histories that define Venice as a unique and diverse place.

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