64 stories on the front page, newest first. Scroll down to watch the site change over time.
255 points by mdp2021 | 44 comments
Open Culture article about a 900-page hand-painted color guide from 1692, a precursor to Pantone, with a link to a complete high-resolution digital scan.
336 points by susam | 185 comments
Open Culture article with an embedded video of James Burke's famous single-take scene timed to a rocket launch in his TV series Connections.
323 points by coloneltcb | 68 comments
Open Culture article reporting that the Metropolitan Museum of Art released high-definition 3D scans of 140 famous art objects, including sarcophagi, paintings and sculptures.
349 points by bookofjoe | 165 comments
Open Culture article about Michelangelo's first known painting, The Torment of Saint Anthony, made when he was 12 or 13 years old.
389 points by rbanffy | 193 comments
Open Culture article about the moving sidewalk at the 1900 Paris Exposition, featuring an embedded Thomas Edison film showing it in operation.
96 points by PaulHoule | 57 comments
386 points by ColinWright | 97 comments
Open Culture article announcing that the medieval illuminated manuscript the Book of Kells has been digitized and made freely viewable online.
414 points by coloneltcb | 120 comments
Open Culture article reporting that the Getty has released nearly 88,000 art images free for anyone to use however they like.
569 points by perihelions | 139 comments
Open Culture article about the USDA's 1886-era commissioned collection of 7,500 watercolor paintings of fruit, now downloadable in high resolution.
50 points by prismatic | 11 comments
