How do your thoughts revolve around the corona, do you follow the news and how has the pandemic shaped your everyday life? Helsingborg Museum wants to document this special year.
- When you take part in these personal stories in the future, you will gain an understanding of what it was like to live right here, 2020, in this crisis, says Birgitta Witting, antiquarian at Kulturmagasinet.
"A lot of worry and loneliness"A 47-year-old woman writes: "If I get corona in the future, which is quite likely if you believe the expertise, I will then belong to the group that gets really sick - who even strikes with?".
- There is a lot of anxiety and loneliness in these stories, says Birgitta Witting, who hopes to get more stories in:
- On our website there is a ready-made form you can fill in. You can also submit your diary notes or an object from this time, she says.
The corona year is also documented in several ways. Museum photographer Anna Bank has photographed Helsingborg's urban environment during the pandemic this spring: Empty ferries, trains and shops, but also leaflets and empty gaping shop shelves.
- It was a very nasty feeling. Borders were closed, shops were blocked again and a field hospital was built in Helsingborg, she says.
- It is an event we will want to look back on, that is why it feels so important to portray.
The pictures can be viewed on the municipality's digital picture database, while the citizens of Helsingborg's stories will be stored in Kulturmagasinet's archives for future generations.
In the video above you can hear excerpts from them.