Documenting Home

Museum of the Home invites everyone to participate in documenting your home lives during the pandemic, whether you live in a high rise flat, in a house with a garden, in sheltered, temporary or insecure housing. Perhaps you are a key worker, unable to stay at home, separated from your family or loved ones.

We are interested in how your use of the physical space has changed – whether, for example, your living room been transformed into a workplace, classroom and gym. We are interested, too, in how household tasks and caring responsibilities have changed during this period; how you have used technology at home; and how home has become a place for individual or collective creative pursuits such as baking, art or making music.

For some home may have felt like a refuge that has brought people closer. Many others have felt trapped, lonely or unsafe. In the first lockdown neighbours joined together for the Thursday night Clap for Carers and there have been other community initiatives, too, that we need to document.

Perhaps there are aspects of staying at home that you would like to hold onto when the virus has retreated?

With your agreement, this material will be documented for future generations, used in podcasts, films, on the web, in galleries and exhibitions; to promote discussion; and to help us all think about the future. An artist-in-residence will also engage with the material in new and exciting ways for a display when the Museum of the Home reopens in 2021.