The pandemic has been a disaster like no other.  The uncertainty, despair, and deaths it caused on a worldwide scale continue, while ongoing studies investigate its impact on practitioners, audiences, and the cultural institutions in which they interact. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the growing literature on the processes and the experiences of the heritage sector to recover from its effects, and how models of adaption, work, and collaboration during the pandemic continue to evolve. The case study cited here focuses on an exhibition that grew in importance, not only because of the artworks that would be shown but also as a healing process as documentation initiatives in preventive conservation showed us how we can do things better.

   Ana Maria Theresa P. Labrador, Ph.D., is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis of New York University, and concurrently an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne. A member of the International Conservation Advisory Panel for Singapore’s National Heritage Board, she is also a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) Working Group for the Museum Definition and Secretary of ICOM Asia Pacific Regional Alliance. She contributes to the upskilling and professionalization of Philippine museums as Conservation Advisor to the Central Visayas Association of Museums.