DNC 2024: Harris memes-turned-ephemera head to the Smithsonian

‘Some of the buttons we’ve been seeing are referencing the memes that have been coming out.’

At the 2024 Democratic National Convention, alongside politicians and delegates from across the country are political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, who are collecting what museum curators call “ephemera”—items that people wear, carry, hand out, display, or otherwise use during the convention.