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A number of items from last week’s deadly Capitol riots will end up at the Smithsonian, according to officials.
Images of pro-Trump rioters storming the Capitol Building sent shockwaves around the world. The violence left five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer, and sparked a high-tech FBImanhunt for suspects involved in the riot.
Some items from the riot will be preserved by Smithsonian curators. As curators from the museum’s Division of Political and Military History continue to document the election of 2020, in the midst of a deadly pandemic, they will include objects and stories that help future generations remember and contextualize Jan. 6 and its aftermath, said the National Museum of American History’s Elizabeth Macmillan Director Anthea M. Hartig, in a statement released on Jan. 8.