AKU-COLL-001

AKU Curatorial Team (compilation)

Collection of Corporate Ephemera (Vitrine I): 1994–2024

2024

Mixed media, museum vitrines

Variable dimensions (three vitrines)

Acquisition

Ongoing collection

Curator’s Note

Three museum vitrines display 47 objects spanning three decades of technology industry material culture: AOL trial discs (1994–2006), a Netscape Navigator installation CD, a Google IPO prospectus with handwritten annotations, Facebook developer conference hoodies in sizes S through XXL, a first-generation iPhone in original retail packaging (sealed), a signed Oculus Rift DK1, NFT mint confirmations, a Google Glass unit, and a Twitter Blue subscription receipt dated November 2022. Accession records for individual objects are available in the study room.