My Museum

My museum would be called Nostalgia and it would be located on Roosevelt Island in NYC so that people from Queens can meet people from Manhattan and vice versa. It would be the center point of all other boroughs too, and instead of going to the museums in their own borough, they would take the time out to travel and enjoy the island and my museum in it. It’s mission is too recollect the past specifically from the 1950s and up, find old values in it again, and reminisce on the time that you grew up in. My museum will mainly focus on the history of people growing up in America, and will showcase different fashions of a specific era, what was trending back then; toys and games people grew up with, old photographs of different settings, and what it was like in the past to get a sense of how we progressed over time. My audience will mostly target teenagers to young adults to parents, and will question them, “do you remember this?” or to show them that “this is what it was like back then” to get a little taste of that era your parents or someone older grew up in. I want to make a museum where it can be relatable to our generation, so that the people living in New York can have a nostalgic feeling and to remember to not forget the past. One of the three things as an example I would use is a recollection of fashion in the 80s. During that time, the “greasers” of the male genre were popular with the influx of skinny jeans, cigarette smoking, leather jackets, and slicked-back hair. They were the “cool kids” of that era and people today who are into clothes and fashion can get a sense of how fashion evolved from this. Another example I would use is the evolution of movies. I would display most of the greatest and famous films in the past specifically chosen by the ratings and top grossing. Not only that, but how the evolution of popular movie watching changed, from drive in movies to theatres. Connecting to that, I would also display the evolution of gaming, showing popular titles and game companies to accompany the media section. I would show what video games were popular back then and what you played as a kid. Going off from media, I would also include other games such as activities and board games, and also toys that were popular back then. These examples relate to my idea of recollecting the past, reminiscing old times, and learning about what it was like back then to accommodate the nostalgic experience my museum has to offer.