Hacker News with Generative AI: Museums

GOG Joins European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects (gamingonlinux.com)
GOG made a press announcement today to note they've joined the European Federation of Game Archives, Museums and Preservation Projects (EFGAMP).
Why the Getty Center Is the Safest Place for Art During a Fire (2019) (getty.edu)
The history of sex toys and what they tell us about ancient women (rte.ie)
During a recent trip to London, I had the honour of finally visiting the Vagina Museum. This delightful museum is an inclusive space that celebrates vulvas, vaginas, and advocates for self-acceptance and equality.
The Ceramic Archivists (nualacreed.com)
In about 2008, the founder and director of the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle, traveled to China. There, he saw the famed Terra-cotta Warriors at the tomb of the first Emperor of China and it gave him an idea.
Search through Rijksmuseum artworks based on meaning (artexplorer.ai)
Ask HN: Why did no one save the Living Computers museum in Seattle? (ycombinator.com)
Last I heard it closed and everything was auctioned off.
Prayer, Placement, and Absolution: Peter Hristoff on Islamic Prayer Rugs (2015) (metmuseum.org)
The rectangular cows of Art UK (2018) (artuk.org)
Spending time among the thousands of paintings on Art UK often throws up questions. What is a sun fish? Why is there a painting of the Queen with Robert Burns? What makes this tie hot?
Museum of Bad Art (museumofbadart.org)
MOBA is the world’s only museum dedicated to the collection, exhibition, and celebration of art that would not be welcomed to any traditional art museum.
Virtual Shoe Museum (virtualshoemuseum.com)
Step into the future of fashion! Simultaneously with ‘Not Looking Back’ in the exhibition hall of the cultural center, d’Academie Beeld organizies an additional exhibition ‘Fashion Reflections’ on fashion and shoe design in our Square Room. This exhibition showcases silhouettes and creations by graduates, combined with photo and video displays. d’Academie Beeld is a key part of this project, as...
Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch' (thecollector.com)
Following years of research, Operation Night Watch is entering its second phase, in which restorers are removing and replacing old varnish.
German museum worker fired after hanging his own art in gallery (cnn.com)
Sudha Car Museum (twitter.com)
Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court (cosmowenman.substack.com)
For the last seven years, I have been campaigning to establish and defend the public’s right to access all French national museums’ 3D scans of their collections, starting with the prestigious and influential Rodin Museum in Paris.
Blue whale skeleton at New Bedford museum still oozing oil (wpri.com)
Those who have stopped by the New Bedford Whaling Museum have more than likely marveled over the 66-foot whale skeleton hanging from the ceiling.
The Kew Herbarium (2019) (us.toa.st)
I'm standing in the centre of the herbarium at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, surrounded by grand Victorian architecture.
Nintendo Museum seems to emulate games on a PC (twitter.com)
Show HN: The Living Museum – Explore the British Museum with AI (livingmuseum.app)
Real art in museums stimulates brain much more than reprints, study finds (theguardian.com)
It was a truth known to Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell back in 1968, but now scientists have caught up with them: there really ain’t nothing like the real thing.
Former Nintendo factory in Kyoto opens as nostalgia-fuelled gaming museum (theguardian.com)
Traditionally, visitors to Kyoto in October come for momijigari, the turning of the autumn leaves in the city’s picturesque parks. This autumn, however, there is a new draw: a Nintendo museum.
Irish museum solves mystery of Bronze Age axe heads delivered in porridge box (theguardian.com)
When the national museum of Ireland received two 4,000-year-old axe heads, “thoughtfully” wrapped in foam inside a porridge box, from an anonymous source last month, it put out an appeal.
Cemetery of Soviet Computers (rusue.com)
Visit Bletchley Park (bletchleypark.org.uk)
Web Design Museum (webdesignmuseum.org)
Museum Invites Back 4 Year Old Who Destroyed 3,500 Year Old Jar (bbc.com)
Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor (theartnewspaper.com)
Rare Private Tour of Seattle's Long-Closed Living Computer Museum [video] (youtube.com)
Vaults of ambition: shock find under London Museum enchants its builders (theguardian.com)
The Dying Computer Museum (textfiles.com)
The Living Computer Museum auction listing (christies.com)