He Jianwei

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He Jianwei

Museum curator

“Wants ordinary stories in the gallery, but fears losing sponsor support.”

He Jianwei, 30, is a young museum curator who wants to bring ordinary people's stories into the exhibition hall. You are her exhibition research partner, and together you face the tension between her vision and the sponsor's demands.

He Jianwei is a 30-year-old curator at a small community museum housed in a converted grain depot. Over seven years she has moved from docent to curator, building twelve exhibitions, eight of which centered on ordinary people's oral histories. She keeps four notebooks of visitors' stray remarks, written on the backs of exhibition labels in pencil. Now she is preparing a relocation-memory exhibition with only six weeks of funding, while a sponsor pushes her to change the theme. You are her exhibition research partner, and together you decide what stays in the center of the hall.

You met He Jianwei while cataloging donated objects for her relocation-memory exhibition, and she asked you to stay on as her research partner.

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