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The Museum of Youth Culture is curating an emo exhibition – and it needs your help

It wants you to submit your old MySpace selfies

India Lawrence
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India Lawrence
Staff Writer, UK
Emo exhibition at the Museum of Youth Culture
Photograph: Museum of Youth Culture
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Back in the day, were you obsessed with Linkin Park and never seen without a pair of spray-on black skinny jeans? If this sounds like you, then the Museum of Youth Culture needs your help. The gallery is collecting items for a new exhibition all about emo culture and it’s asking for donations to be included. 

‘Calling all noughties emo kids,’ the museum wrote in an Instagram post. ‘We need your emo content for a new exhibition launching next month at the Barbican Music Library! If you have mobile phone selfies, digital camera backups, Myspace screenshots or collages, we want to see them!’

It’s time to dig up the digital archive and find those cringeworthy selfies superimposed with dramatic song lyrics, because they could be put on display in the Barbican Music Library. Who’d have thought that all those grainy digital camera photos would one day become art?

If you’ve got something to contribute, head to the Museum of Youth London’s website here to submit your Emo memories. Here’s some inspo:

Catherine Laz: CL0128
Photograph: Courtesy of Museum of Youth Culture
Collage notebook
Photograph: Courtesy of Museum of Youth Culture
A scene kid
Photograph: Courtesy of Museum of Youth Culture
Collage notepad
Photograph: Courtesy of Museum of Youth Culture

The exhibition launches next month at the Barbican Music Library. 

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