As Occupy Museums (the recent offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement) targets museums in New York as part of its plans to take back cultural institutions from the 1%, other museums, including the New York Historical Society and the Smithsonian Museum of American History, are collecting protest ephemera for use in future exhibitions on the movement's impact.
Less than twelve months ago the Smithsonian Institution was a target for protestors, drawing flak for censoring a video by David Wojnarowicz in the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.
Images: flag made by Occupy Wall Street protestors in Zuccotti Park and the New York Historical Society
