They may be blessed -- or burdened -- with troves of artworks by once-semifamous, now-forgotten names and tons of decorative objects, artifacts and memorabilia donated by local citizens, but they usually have little space to display their treasures and limited resources for preservation and proper storage.
This is something like a collection of sports memorabilia or decorative birds.
Find inventive ways to use some of the memorabilia as decorative elements here.
Ms. Brosterman treasures this family memorabilia, but her favorite decorative detail looks to the future rather than to the past.
Decorate your room with Newcastle Football memorabilia.
You can also re-purpose some of the memorabilia that you compiled in innovative ways as decorative elements.
From here the show tracks French history through the next two decades, with more than 200 paintings, sculptures, decorative objects, historical artifacts and all manner of odd and unexpected memorabilia.
"Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences," which runs from Thursday to March 18 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, explores these influences with 300 pieces of movie memorabilia, 40 film excerpts and 200 paintings, sculptures and decorative items.
The Shakespeare Memorial Room, complete with Victorian bookcases and decorative plasterwork, and contents including one of the world's largest Shakespeare collections of books, pamphlets and memorabilia, has already been carefully installed in the golden pillbox-shaped chamber crowning the structure, intended by the Dutch architects Mecanoo to be seen from far across the city.
There was even memorabilia.
