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Time Capsule 21 Activity: A Day in the Life of Warhol

The Time Capsules is Warhol’s largest collecting project. He saved source material for his work and an enormous record of his daily life. Warhol started his Time Capsules in 1974…

A worn, brown cardboard box sits against a white background. It had been sealed with silver duct tape, but it has been opened. The number “21” is written in red pen on top of the box. There is also minimal additional writing on the side of the box in pencil.

Andy Warhol, Time Capsule 21, 1928-1974; Bulk: 1950s-1960s
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
TC21.123
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Time Capsules

This instructional video explores the making of one of Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules. During the latter part of his life, Warhol created over 600 Time Capsules by collecting and storing…

This image depicts Andy Warhol's time capsules as they are displayed in the Warhol archives. Neat rows of brown cardboard boxes, all the same size, are lined up on metal shelves. On some of the boxes, tape is visible, or there is writing in black sharpie noting the date that the time capsule was sealed.

Time Capsules in the archives at The Warhol.
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TC339: Video of a Time Capsule Opening

Step inside the Archives with us as we open up TC 339 and make some interesting discoveries! We’ll follow this up with a second video discussing how we organize items…

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John Waters Opens a Time Capsule – Discovering Photos

Filmmaker John Waters stopped by the Warhol to offer his insight into a Warhol Time Capsule, and focused on the budget for Bad, some interesting photos, Joe Dallesandro, reminisced about…

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John Waters Opens a Time Capsule – BAD

Filmmaker John Waters stopped by the Warhol to offer his insight into a Warhol Time Capsule, and focused on the budget for Bad, some interesting photos, Joe Dallesandro, reminisced about…

Andy Warhol’s Time Capsule 21

Andy Warhol’s Time Capsule 21
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Inside Time Capsule 526: A Portrait of King Edward VIII

Time Capsule 526—filled with Andy Warhol’s personal items mostly from 1982—was originally catalogued in October 2012. Recently, The Warhol archives team removed it from storage to get it ready to…

W. & D. Downey, photographers, Prince Edward (King Edward VIII), studio portrait of young child, “HRH the Prince of Wales” handwritten on verso from “Time Capsule 526,” 1895, albumen print, Overall: 6 × 4 in. (15.2 × 10.2 cm.), The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., TC526.44.4
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TC86: Opening a Warhol Time Capsule with Benjamin Liu

Each Time Capsule holds on average 250 individual items, comprised mainly of everyday objects, seemingly unremarkable in and of themselves: cloth napkins, hotel toiletries, old packaging, stationery, newspapers, etc. However,…

A group of people , including Andy Warhol's former personal and studio assistant Benjamin Liu open a Warhol time capsule.
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TC528: Opening a Warhol Time Capsule with Benjamin Liu

It is not unusual for cataloguers working on the Time Capsule project to develop their own “relationships” with Warhol’s friends. It is easy to track the arrival and departure of…

Four people including Andy Warhol's former personal and studio assistant Benjamin Liu view a Warhol time capsule's contents.
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Unboxed: A new app at The Warhol

Andy Warhol was an obsessive collector. Starting in 1974, he assembled 610 Time Capsules, putting together all sorts of things (from fanzines to food) into cardboard boxes and sending them…

A close up view of a person's hand holding a cell phone against a pink and yellow screenprint of a cow's head.

The Unboxed app displayed in the museum's entrance space.