The ReMuseum
Collaborative artists engaging in social research through public and media art projects.
The ReMuseum collection features objects chosen by people outside traditional museum structures. In early 2012, mobile curator Raquel de Anda spoke with DC community members about personally significant objects.
She asked...
Each selected object was replicated and paired with video and audio installations sharing the owners' stories. The collection displays in both museums and DC neighborhoods, transforming everyday treasures into monuments while presenting intimate and often amusing glimpses of our shared history.
Our mobile museum displays the concrete artworks at different spots around the city. Matching works are displayed in museums in the city.
City on the Move
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Redistribute
Replicate
Contact
ReMuseum in Action
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We find community members who have a rich history in DC and they tell us about meaningful objects and why they matter.
FLC casts the piece in concrete to solidfy the collective memory.
Participants choose an artwork to take with them, becoming part of its ongoing story.
Exhibit
We meet with object owners to receive the object, record their stories on video, and hear their history in their own words.
Collect
People place their chosen artwork somewhere meaningful in the city and share the location using GPS.
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Re-Memorialize
The Process in Action - Simm's Comb
The Process in Action - Jamal's Microphone
The Floating Lab Collective's collected projects uniquely connect art, community, and social discourse seamlessly.
Mobile Memorials
These objects that mean so much, and carry such rich history, create new stories throughout the city.
Exploring DC's Unheard Stories
This art project highlights the voices and experiences that often get overlooked in Washington DC. While tourists and commuters dominate many conversations about the city, we focus on the people who actually live here—both longtime residents and newer immigrants—and how they shape DC's neighborhoods through their daily lives and movements.
They don't just use the city— they actively change it
DC Mobility
Our work examines how different communities create their own spaces within the city: the food trucks that follow construction workers, the walking paths worn by daily commuters where sidewalks don't exist, and the community centers that become vital neighborhood hubs.
Mobile Immigrant Population
Mobile Commuters
Displaced Habitants
We also explore how suburban commuters reshape the city through their fears of outlying areas and the infrastructure their commuting demands—highways, parking structures, and transportation systems that prioritize moving through the city rather than engaging with it.
Through art, we reveal how these residents don't just live in DC—they actively create it, one small adaptation at a time. Their stories deserve to be seen and heard as an essential part of what makes Washington DC more than just a place people pass through.