Time capsule guides
Practical guides to making a time capsule, physical or digital, written to be useful whether or not you ever use ours.
Each guide answers one question in full: which container survives, what to ask a six-year-old, how to record a grandparent on a phone.
How to Make a Time Capsule
Which containers survive, what to put in and what to leave out, where to keep it, and how to make sure someone actually opens it — following the guidance conservators publish.
Read the guide→Time Capsule Questions for Every Age
Question lists for young children, teenagers, couples, a class, a family and yourself — and how to ask them so the answers are worth opening.
Read the guide→Questions to Ask Your Grandparents
Fifty questions by theme, how to record the conversation on a phone so it is worth keeping, and where to put the file so the family still has it in twenty years.
Read the guide→Time doesn't erase everything!
Lock the present, reveal it in the future.