It’s a rare person, who, in the midst of a historic crisis, stops to think about how future generations will look back on what’s still unfolding. Unless, of course, that person is the history business. The people at the National Museum of Taiwan History, for instance, know that the best time to start a new collection of historical artifacts is before they become historical in the first place- before people have a time to catch their breath and throw many objects associated with an event away. That’s why, early in the year, when it became clear that COVID-19 was about to become the sort of thing people would one day look back on, the museum’s staff was already primed to create a new collection for posterity. The museum’s Tseng Wan-lin is here today to explain how this COVID-19 collection is taking shape, why despite concerns, the museum is not taking much-needed medical supplies, and what objects from the times we live in are still on the museum’s wishlist.