FiX: heartbreak and hope

Minnetrista announces opening of new exhibit:

FIX: Heartbreak and Hope Inside Our Opioid Crisis

The United States is in the middle of a crisis that impacts families and communities, and Indiana is at the epicenter: opioid use disorder.

Minnetrista is inviting visitors in to talk about it through their powerful new exhibit—FIX: Heartbreak and Hope Inside Our Opioid Crisis now through May 1, 2022. Their hope is to shift the conversation and break the stigma surrounding opioid use disorder.

Visitors will investigate the science and biology behind opioid use disorder, our nation’s history with other health crises, hear personal stories from Hoosiers impacted by the opioid crisis, and explore the various roads to recovery.

“One thing I really like about FIX is that there is a conscious effort to make a tough topic accessible in story, design and feel,” said Nalleli Guillen, Minnetrista’s associate director of exhibition and curation. “There’s a lot of shame involved around the idea of substance abuse, and it doesn’t have to be that way. Putting together an exhibit that is trying to help people learn and overcome – I think that’s what museums should be doing.”

Hands-on interactives allow families to explore the real science behind cravings or addictions. Visitors can go inside a giant fabric brain to learn about how opioids affect the brain and explore a quilt fort created by Indianapolis artist and person in recovery himself, Philip Campbell. Photos taken just for the exhibit by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Bill Foley will show what recovery can look like around the state.

FIX was created at the Indiana State Museum. In 2020, the exhibit won the Best Practices award from the Association of Midwest Museums and an award from the organization Overdose Lifeline.

For more information, visit www. minnetrista.net

“One thing I really like about FIX is that there is a conscious effort to make a tough topic accessible in story, design and feel. There’s a lot of shame involved around the idea of substance abuse, and it doesn’t have to be that way.”

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