Due to popular demand, Closet Archaeology: An Accidental Time Capsule will run through October 15. This show presents 20th-century ephemera discovered under the floorboards of the Children’s Workshop School/P.S. 61 by a class of fourth-grade students led by their teacher, Miriam Sicherman. The students have compiled an archive of everyday artifacts ranging from ca. 1915 to ca. 1991. In addition to uncovering objects of the quotidian past, the students have also reached out and connected with some of the former students, now adults of advanced age, who lost items under the floorboards many years ago.

The Reliquary exhibition has received coverage in Atlas Obscura and Bedford + Bowery. Miriam Sicherman has discussed the project in Social Studies and the Young Learner (Nov/Dec 2015). The project has also been covered by The New York Times.

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