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Curators collect history as it happens at the 2016 national political conventions
Scrolling through social media or watching on TV, you can't miss the pageantry accompanying national political conventions. The bright lights of news media; the red, white and blue décor; the thunderous applause as the party leaders deliver rousing speeches. But the vivid spectacle is temporary. The signs, hats, buttons, balloons, and commemorative bobble head toys tend to disappear when the convention ends, the décor taken down and confetti swept up as the election year grinds forward. But for the museum, the objects collected from the Republican and Democratic National Conventions (RNC and DNC, respectively) are invaluable for research and possible exhibition.
Two of our curators are currently gathering objects from both conventions. To learn more about their process and the history of political conventions, we asked curators Lisa Kathleen Graddy and Jon Grinspan of the Division of Political History to speak to us before their journey to Cleveland, Ohio, to the 2016 RNC.
As political history curators attending both of the 2016 conventions, can you tell us what you'll be doing there?
Lisa Kathleen Graddy: We'll be observing and documenting the event. We'll also be talking to the delegates on the floor to see how they're experiencing the event and to acquire materials that they have that are representative of their experience there. So it's the things they wear, the things that they make, and the things that they're trading around and acquiring during the convention.
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