Threshold – a pop up archive installation, a collaboration between Sal Pittman

and Museum of Youth Culture.

Guests were brought into an immersive ‘night at the museum’ exploring some of

the 100,000 slides through vintage projections, soundscape and archival video.

Threshold featured intense, transporting soundtracks by Joe Egg, involving a subculture mix alongside ethereal sound clipping inspired by hauntological youth culture memories.

We re-archived the Museum of Youth Culture, over three days in October inviting the public to

walk through a journey of youth in Britain found in slides and objects from the archives.

Mixing digital and analogue, contemporary with history, this re-imagining invited new

perspectives to documented histories. For the first time the collections were unlocked

and the doors opened.

Threshold reimagined the museum archive as an exploratory work-in-progress.

The Museum of Youth Culture archive reflects life’s biggest moments from over 10

decades with one theme in common –

Threshold asked the question, for which path do you leave your safe space? Which door leads you to your unknown?

all photos ©Debbie Sears