memory box

English

Noun

memory box (plural memory boxes)

1. A box containing items that serve as reminders, used for example in therapy for dementia, or as a memorial to a deceased infant.
   • 2006, F. David Martin, Facing Death: Theme and Variations, page 43:

     Watch the elderly, even the escapists, as they nurse nostalgia: the wonder as they open memory boxes or old letters or family albums […]

See also

• time capsule