Being Young In Coventry
Share your photographs, objects and memories of being a teenager in Coventry and be part of something exciting happening this year at the Herbert.
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What is it like being young in Coventry? The Museum of Youth Culture Wants to hear from you!
We need your help for something exciting happening at the Herbert later this year. The Museum of Youth are collecting memories, photographs and objects celebrating Coventry’s youth culture; from first loves to first jobs, Saturday hangouts and family holidays.
They will be at the Herbert for the day to hear your stories of growing up in Coventry. Come down to meet the team and bring along your teenager mementos to be scanned and photographed, or have your story recorded.
What they are after:
- Memories and stories of growing up in Coventry
- Photographs
- Flyers, tickets stubs and other ephemera
- Home footage
- Objects related to youth
- Anything else related to youth culture
Find out more about Grown Up in Britain here.
About the Museum of Youth Culture
The Museum of Youth Culture is an emerging Museum celebrating the scenes, sounds and styles innovated by young people over the last 100 years. Championing the impact of youth on modern society, the Museum of Youth Culture is formed from the archives of YOUTH CLUB, a non-profit Heritage Lottery & Arts Council Funded collection incorporating photographs, ephemera, objects and oral histories celebrating our shared youth culture history. In 2019 they launched their Grown up in Britain campaign inviting the public to submit their stories to the Museum From the bomb-site Bicycle racers in post-war 1940s London, to the Acid House ravers of 1980s Northern England, the Museum of Youth Culture empowers the extraordinary everyday stories of growing up in Britain.
