Catalogue Entry for “6 Beer Cans” in the UCL Ethnographic Collections’ Online Catalogue
Added to the Museum of Data by Delilah Wallbank on Monday, February 23, 2026. Museum of Data Collection ID: 1411.
Public description: This is the catalogue entry for an item within UCL's ethnographic collections. Specifically this object records information about 6 beer cans: their brands, sizes, materials, where they were made, and their approximate export dates. Catalogue entries can tell us important things about how we think about objects. They are also objects in themselves and their materiality is important. This is a digital catalogue entry which can be accessed by anyone online, but to find this specific entry or any other in the catalogue the user must know a key word that is associated with it so that they can search the catalogue. Currently it is not possible to simply browse the collections catalogue. This entry tell us some information but it also leaves some out: who brought these objects into the collections? When were they added? Why are they being kept?
Materials used: Text, Blank Space, Electricity, Light, Binary Numbers
Credit: It is not clear who the author of the text in this object is but the owner is UCL's ethnographic collection. It would be interesting to know who made this object, as it could help us to understand more about what information they have decided to record within it.
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Language: English
Size: Most but not all of a small laptop screen
Creation date: 2020/12/14 00:00:00
Alternate identifiers: R.0110
External link: https://ethcat.museums.ucl.ac.uk/detail.aspx#750001537
Tags: 8, 11, 9
