Memorabilia

DEFINITION

Objects collected for their historical significance, for the memories they evoke ? often sentimental. Examples include old posters and other advertisements, election campaign buttons, party invitations, packaging, theater tickets, and other realia and ephemera.a collection of printed memorabilia of the Beatles Memorabilia associated with the people and events history remembers is more collectible than objects associated with people and events history forgets.Souvenirs qualify as memorabilia, but souvenirs are more likely to remind a collector of specific places or events.(pr. MEH-mah-rə-BEE-lee-ə)Also see bric-a-brac, found objects, historicity, kitsch, low art, mass media, polypropylene, popular culture, relic, and reliquary.