Takeout menus. Directions for attending a funeral. A leaflet from a local shrine, announcing the cancellation of summer festivals. These humble, everyday artifacts of life in the pandemic have found a home in the Historical Museum of Urahoro, in Hokkaido, northern Japan, a town of just 4,500 residents that lacks a McDonald´s or movie theater. But thanks to the museum´s curator, Makoto Mochida, it has a repository of the dross of the moment, stuff that may tell future generations what it was like to live in the time of COVID-19 – how life was profoundly changed with social distancing and growing fears over the outbreak. “I am fascinated by how things connect with people,” Mochida said. Some people are surprised he´s hoarding what appears to be garbage, said Mochida, who has problems throwing away things at home, too. “Things furnish an excellent way to accurately archive history,” he said.