We believe that human ingenuity and collective efforts are capable of achieving so much! Houses may be built and filled with objects with the aid of 3D printing, with food and medicine being produced and improved on an open-source basis, with the aid of free textbooks.
Since our collection is intended for distribution and use rather than storage and accumulation, the Museum of Care will strive to ensure that every visitor has the opportunity to download the entire Survival Kit collection. Additionally, visitors will be able to take some of the exhibited physical objects home with them.
The David Graeber Institute is developing an anti-colonial Museum of Care in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines using an abandoned ship that is set to be pulled ashore and installed near the old oceanfront airport. The museum will be organized around a collection called the Survival Kit, which focuses on the maintenance of human life rather than the preservation of art objects.
We plan to devote special attention to technologies of Care and share the story of political software created for free distribution. We aim to host regular exhibitions dedicated to the heroic defenders of the commons, organize public talks and events, and explore the intersections of science, technology, and politics.
A significant part of our museum will be dedicated to the heroic native people of Saint Vincent—the Garifuna—their culture, traditions, and history of their heroic struggle for independence.
There will be a special room in our Museum, which will be called the “Room of Giants.” There we started to collect the Metapersons, which can include individuals whose legacy we think is truly magnificent (like David Graeber) as well as entire nations (such as the heroic Garifuna people).
This comes as an opposition to the history of the museological institution, which (from the Wunderkammer onwards) has a colonial lineage of decontextualising so-called treasures and possessions. An opposition that sees itself in the counter-scarcity of reproduction, of making copies, of allowing free distribution, of making survival a possibility for everyone! This said, we wink at other museums that might want to participate in this network, that might want to add, develop, and in turn distribute their collections to all countries and continents!
We believe that humanity has already developed the technology required to produce enough of everything. The challenge now is to figure out how to collect, maintain, and distribute it equitably to everyone who may need it.
