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Site Contents:
What is the Worldcon Heritage Organization?
The WHO exhibits from Helsinki
Hugo Award Displays
Posters from and about Worldcons
Worldcon Publications
WHO Officers and Directors
WHAT'S NEW?
WHO is bidding on two Hugo trophies being offered for auction on
Friday, 7 June 2024
If you would like to help us bid on these marvelous relics of Worldcon fandom
please send an email to our WHO president
KentBloom@worldconheritage.org
and let him know how much you would
like to pledge. If you would like to donate directly, please use this Venmo link (Note that the payment account will show the name of the WHO treasurer, Edward Monogue with the tag @worldcon_heritage). WHO is registered and ready for the auction on Friday.
More information about the Hugo trophy from File770
This page was last updated
5 June 2024
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The Worldcon Heritage Organization (WHO)
Locating, Collecting, and Preserving Artifacts
from World Science Fiction Conventions
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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