The Museum of Emotions began as a temporary one year project during the first year of the global pandemic. We have received submissions from New York, Germany, Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia, California, Texas, and Mexico. We welcome all inquiries and input as the site aims to be more interactive. Welcome!
Curator, Nell Waters
I am a recovering start up founder, native New Yorker, Bay Area resident. The year in quarantine pushed me to expand my patience with cities, small spaces, other people, media columnists, my family, and my own mind. I wanted to create an interactive space, and a repository, for the unfettered, gentle, and wild feelings people have. This began as a pop-up concept and though a slow evolution, I’ve revivified the site. The displays here run the gamut from the quirky to the hard to grasp, the gutsy to heart wrenching submissions, and others rambunctious and beautifully strange.
This is vulnerable work as it mixes reproductions of someone’s inner state with their spoken narrative of the experience they had. The field of emotional psychology is relatively new, just over 50 years old, and a quaking is happening in American culture right now amidst many layers of reckoning we face. Talking about our feelings was once taboo, has often been difficult, and is now widely viewed as critical to social survival and mental health.
At the Museum of Emotions I want to create a platform for the visual representations of these levers that push and pull on us every waking moment. Fingers crossed that more people from around the globe will join us at Museofemo!
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Madonna sings ‘express yourself!’ and Katy Perry wails ‘you just gotta ignite the light and let it shine.’ But, like, how many emotions do we really have ? The internet is filled with claims that we have twenty-seven emotions. Well, that’s a start. By exploring our sensations perhaps we can get to the root of how we go about expressing ourselves as we deepen our relationships to our body, each other, and our interconnectedness.
Welcome to the Museum of Emotions.