The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago is initiating a digital project called 10,000 Kwentos. Under the banner of an innovative concept called co-curation, this project will allow Filipinos to document and assist in the stewardship of their vast Philippine cultural collection at the Field Museum, which is currently in storage. The collection includes 10,000 artifacts made and used by native peoples of the major islands of Luzon, Mindoro, Mindanao, Palawan, and Sulu. Each piece has a story, or kwento, to tell and we need to preserve these stories to share them with future generations. The Field strongly believes communities must be part of the conversation around their heritage, as they were users and producers of these material objects in the past and may continue to use them today. The Filipino American community is the first to be invited by the Field Museum to showcase co-curation.

The Field Museum and members of Chicago's Filipino American community have an opportunity to digitally photograph approximately 8,000 artifacts from the Field's Philippine Anthropology collection and upload the images onto a custom web portal to allow the public to comment on collection items. In order to take advantage of this opportunity, we need you to show us your support for this project.

Please sign this petition and help us bring Philippine artifacts to the world!