Experience over 70 exhibits of optical illusions IRL at New York’s interactive Museum of Illusions. From mirror tricks to gravity-defying rooms, your mind is sure to be blown. Read more…More about Instagram, Mashable Video, Optical Illusion, Museum,…
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11,800-pound meteorite withstands a devastating fire at Brazil’s National Museum
The hefty metal Bendegó meteorite still sits unscathed inside the charred entrance to Brazil’s palatial National Museum, after flames spread through the 200-year-old halls Sunday night.
The iron-and-nickel space rock, weighing in at some 11,800 …
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The Uffizi Galleries partnered with Indiana University to digitize their entire sculpture collectionThe Uffizi Digitization Project currently hosts over 300 interactive 3D scans of the Gallery’s masterpieces that you can view in detail from the comfo…
View More You no longer have to go to Italy to study these 300 museum artifacts up close‘Workshop of Lights’ is the first digital museum in Paris
The Atelier des Lumières was once a factory. Now it’s home to Paris’ first immersive digital museum, which relies on projectors and speakers to give fine art a new medium of representation. Read more…More about Paris, Digital, Museum, Projector…
View More ‘Workshop of Lights’ is the first digital museum in ParisJapan’s first digital art museum makes visitors a part of the installation
Tokyo’s MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM has opened its doors and invites visitors to immerse themselves in its psychedelic installations. Inside the museum’s 107,000 square-foot space, patrons can literally get inside artworks and interact with them…
View More Japan’s first digital art museum makes visitors a part of the installationThe Louvre created an entire art tour based on Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s ‘Apesh*t’ video
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Have you ever seen regular old museum attendees go apeshit? No? Well, thanks to the Louvre, now you can!
The Paris museum — home to famous works like Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, and more recently, the music video for Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s song, “Apeshit,” off the album EVERYTHING IS LOVE — now offers a guided tour that will retrace the steps the power couple took when creating their visual masterpiece.
The tour will examine the 17 pieces of art that were featured in the Carters’ “Apeshit” video, directed by Ricky Saiz. Read more…
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View More The Louvre created an entire art tour based on Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s ‘Apesh*t’ videoRoommates prank friend by turning their bedroom into a bad museum from the future
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When Ellen Huet’s roommates went on vacation, she pulled out her laminator and went to work.
Everyday objects haphazardly thrown around the room became exhibits in an error-filled museum from the future. Her housemates, Tony Lai and Nihar Madhavan wrote descriptions for each ancient relic.
opportunity: two of your housemates take a trip
battle plan: rest of house bands together to convert their bedroom into an error-filled anthropological exhibit from the future pic.twitter.com/dtVyjRt4Dl
— Ellen Huet (@ellenhuet) February 12, 2018
A jar of change was, according to Huet’s anthropological studies, a shrine for the “religion known as Capitalism.” Read more…
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View More Roommates prank friend by turning their bedroom into a bad museum from the futureHow an iconic LA art museum prepared itself for devastating wildfires
The wildfire-prone Santa Monica Mountains might sound like a terrible location for a billion dollar museum containing priceless works of art. But when Los Angeles’ Getty Center was conceived by its board in the late 1980’s, they were well aware of th…
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