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Member Tour: Archives and Conservation

Saturday, June 24, 2017, 2 p.m.

An assortment ofobjects arranged in front of a cardboard box. The objects include a Miss Piggy dress-up Muppet doll, still in its box; a shopping bag with an image of Kermit the Frog printed on it; t-shirts and polo shirts with decorated small Muppet patches and autographs addressed to “Andy”; and Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog mugs.

Andy Warhol, Time Capsule 471, 1980–83

The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
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Peer inside the archives! Warhol had a notorious collecting habit, filling 610 Time Capsules with the contents of his daily life: fan-letters, invitations, candy, flyers, and much more. Learn how our archives staff preserves Warhol’s collected history as well as his artistic work and gain an appreciation for the art—and science—of conservation.