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Archive Relics: Domestic Grooming Artefacts

All retro hairstyles, grooming tools, fragrances, and storage items of old objects have been integrated as the core research collection of the Lira Museum’s office. Each item is accompanied by standardized and rigorous museum exhibition labels, while also incorporating handwritten modifications, annotations, and notes, simulating the subjective memory interpretations left by private researchers on public archives. The objective museum collection archives are juxtaposed with private emotional annotations, distinguishing between the cold official historical records and the hair-felted, overlooked female private daily narratives that are ignored by mainstream history.

Close‑up of dual‑system exhibition labels: factual museum text alongside lyrical Lira annotation on printed paper.

Detail view of composite dual‑system exhibit labels, 2026, printed paper, two‑part label design.

Two vintage keepsake containers