Washington, D.C. ? Curators at the Smithsonian Institution wasted no time snapping up souvenirs from President-elect Barack Obama’s historic campaign victory and revealed plans Wednesday to recreate one of the campaign’s Virginia field offices in a future exhibit.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture, slated to open in 2015 on the National Mall, scooped up items that had been headed for the trash can – such as election maps, strategy boards, campaign literature and even a Lazy Boy chair from Obama’s campaign office in Falls Church, Va. – shortly after the election.