Perhaps one of the strangest facts about American artist Andy Warhol involves Warhol’s time capsules, archived at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. They contain 610 cardboard boxes, 40 filing cabinets and one large trunk in which Warhol stored materials of daily life.

Warhol hid photos, newspapers and magazines, letters and books in a box located next to his working table. At the end of each month, the box was sealed and the date added. The box contents include varied items including a mummified foot, Caroline Kennedy’s birthday cake, a 17th-century German book on wrestling and drawings of 1950s icons such as Jean Harlow’s dress or Clark Gable’s boots.

The collection as an archive is the most extensive collection of everyday objects in an artist’s life. In many ways, these bits and pieces are much like a large, organic and multidimensional diary. Only 91 of the 611 capsules have been opened, and 19 have been fully analyzed and recorded. The museum was recently awarded a grant to digitally catalogue the entire collection and three full-time archivists are spending three years going through all the remaining boxes.

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