Remembering and representing collective memories is difficult to continue merely through word of mouth, which is why cultural artifacts are much better at sustaining, but also proving, that such historical events existed. Artifacts can both encompass memories and history without having a bias, which a storyteller may have when recounting an event. The only problem with artifacts is that they can potentially be destroyed or stolen. However, this problem is quickly being solved with developments in technology. Photos and videos can capture both artifacts and significant events, and museums and art galleries are using these tools to their full advantage. While browsing the Internet I found that the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History now has a website where you can take a virtual tour of all their exhibits with additional information when you click on each exhibit (http://www.mnh.si.edu/vtp/1-desktop/). This utilization of technology made me interested in learning more about my own and other cultures history, and I realized that anyone who has a computer and Internet is also able to access the same information I was seeing. The museum’s Human Origins exhibit on the development of the Australopithecus Lucy was especially interesting to me because many people may have heard about the extraordinary discovery of Lucy, a unusually complete skeleton almost 3.2 million years old, the on the news but the museum is able to catalog Lucy’s discovery more in depth and share that information online. As much as technology can be criticized for desensitizing society to the accessibility of information and creating isolation instead of personal contact, it is also helping to immortalize history and spread knowledge of cultural memory to people around the world. Museums with the help of technology are able to make collective memories more accessible to a greater amount of people, allowing for better understanding of other cultures and their belief systems but also history that all of humanity has in common.