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please send an email to our WHO president
KentBloom@worldconheritage.org
and let him know how much you would
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The Worldcon Heritage Organization (WHO)
Locating, Collecting, and Preserving Artifacts What is the Worldcon Heritage Organization?The Worldcon Heritage Organization was founded in 2011 after the Renovation Worldcon in Reno, Nevada as a vehicle to maintain and preserve the collection created by Bruce and Elayne Pelz, Peggy Rae Sapienza, and others. The collection contains program books, newsletters, flyers, t-shirts, badges, ribbons, awards, gifts, prizes, pictures, and a wide variety of other physical ephemera from World Science Fiction Conventions going back to a program from the first Worldcon in 1939 in New York City. Generous donations from the various Worldcon committees and from the award winners themselves have provided WHO with a large collection of different Hugo award trophies. WHO stores the artifacts, curates the collection, and arranges transportation to and from each year's Worldcon. Once the materials arrive members of WHO set up and maintain the exhibit and then, when the convention is over, carefully pack it up and return the exhibits to secure storage.
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Worldcon75 in Helsinki, FinlandThe Worldcon Heritage Organization sent four road cases of Hugo Awards to the 75th Worldcon in Helsinki, Finland in August of 2017. The photo to the left shows the WHO exhibit set up in the main exhibit hall. The photo on the left below shows special non-metallic Hugos created by Peter Weston for a special demo. The photo below right shows the WHO team wrapping and packing the Hugos for their trip back to our permanent storage location in Colorado, USA.
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Hugo Award Displays from Other Worldcons
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