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Archiving Prince’s Paisley Park Artifacts

One year ago today the world lost a great talent. Now the same group of people who run Elvis Presley’s Graceland are archiving Prince’s possessions at his Paisley Park mansion/studio/museum. Already, 7,000+ artifacts have been archived, and that’s believed to be less than five percent of the building’s pieces. From shoes to jewelry, sketchbooks and guitars, the items aren’t meant to tell Prince’s full life story, rather, “The goal of the museum [is] to capture what it was about his home base that reflected his creativity and vision.” Take a closer look at the New York Times.

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