11 stories tagged museums, newest first.
107 points by surprisetalk | 30 comments
The Last Museum is a website offering semantic search across millions of artworks from major museums, with filters by date range, artists, and cultures.
19 points by Petiver | 3 comments
A Longreads personal essay by Daniel Barnum about a grieving son finding meaning among a museum collection of skulls after his mother's death.
132 points by ohjeez | 88 comments
CBS News report that two Renoir paintings stolen from a museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France were found slightly damaged behind a cinder block wall, with a suspect charged via DNA evidence.
61 points by pseudolus | 26 comments
Ars Technica article about a Cray-1 supercomputer replica built from 30 old Mac Minis at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación.
89 points by npollock | 24 comments
Marcin Wichary's archived 2022 Twitter thread with photos from visits to computer museums in the Netherlands.
12 points by rbanffy | 1 comments
A blog post from a computer museum about Galaxy Game, the early coin-operated computer arcade game, showing two blue cabinets in a warehouse.
73 points by zeristor | 27 comments
Diamond Geezer blog post about the Bayeux Tapestry going on display at the British Museum, and Reading's Victorian replica of the tapestry.
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.
1028 points by arch_deluxe | 338 comments
Personal essay arguing that science museums like the Franklin Institute rely too heavily on screen-based exhibits instead of hands-on physical experiences.
342 points by bpierre | 110 comments
The Art Newspaper news article about contractors renovating the National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing finding a 1990 letter from a donor anticipating demolition of false columns.
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.