Zaha Hadid Architects Have Completed The Messner Mountain Museum Corones In Italy
Zaha Hadid Architects have completed the Messner Mountain Museum Corones, located in South Tyrol, Italy. Continue reading »
Swim In 1,000,000 Recyclable Plastic Balls At Installation In Museum In Washington
The National Building Museum in Washington has become the unlikely home of an enormous ocean of one million plastic bubbles and a plastic beach open to visitors who want to hop in for a truly bizarre experience. Continue reading »
At This 3D Art Museum In Philippines You Become A Part Of The Art
Most museums don’t like to see their visitors take pictures, some going so far as to charge them for the privilege. But this is not the case at the Art In Island museum in Manila, The Philippines. Here, visitors are encouraged to interact and have fun with the art pieces, taking as many photos as they want. “Art paintings are not complete if you are not with them, if you don’t take pictures with them,” Blyth Cambaya, the museum’s secretary.
The museum is filled with unique paintings that, when photographed from a certain angle, create optical illusions that make it seem like you’re, for example, stepping out of the painting or being attacked by it.
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Humanoid Robots at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Technology
Japanese android expert Hiroshi Ishiguro, left, talks with new talking robot Sota, right, Android robot Otonaroid, second left, and another talking robots CommU, center and second right, during a press event at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation Miraikan in Tokyo Tuesday, January 20, 2015. Ishiguro, the scientist behind the new talking robot in Japan says people should stop expecting robots to understand them, and instead try to chime in with robotic conversations. Ishiguro’s 28-centimer (11-inch) tall button-eyed Sota, which stands for “social talker”, is programmed to mainly talk with a fellow robot, and won’t be trying too hard to understand human speech – the major, and often frustrating, drawback of companion robots. (Photo by Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Photo)
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No Rat Shall Pass: Cats of the Hermitage Museum
The Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, once home to Russia’s ruling Romanov dynasty, is now the centerpiece of the world-renown State Hermitage Museum; its new tenants are a population of stray cats, who control the local population of mice and rats that threatens the museum’s exhibits. Continue reading »
Artifacts from the Central Intelligence Agency Museum
An essential part of the survival kit for American forces in the Philippines, China and Burma, this knife was ideal for cutting through jungle brush. It also had potential as a combat knife – its manufacturer provided instructions on how to use the Woodsman’s Pal to defeat a Japanese soldier armed with a samurai sword. (Photo by Central Intelligence Agency)
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Museum Uses Brilliant Ads To Get You Excited About Science
Science people have all the brains, even when it comes to a spot of advertising. Wanting to engage the public with science —in a way that was both thought-provoking and fun—Vancouver’s Science World teamed up with creative agency Rethink Canada to produce these very clever ads. No need to double check these quirky facts, they’re all scientifically verified, promise. Continue reading »
Collider Exhibition at the Science Museum in London
Professor Peter Higgs stands in front of a photograph of the Large Hadron Collider at the Science Museum’s ‘Collider’ exhibition on November 12, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) Continue reading »
Schusev State Museum of Architecture
Absolutely fantastic press & OOH campaign for Schusev State Museum of Architecture Moscow.
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– high resolution images on click
– how-to’s sketches
“Extavium” Museum in Potsdam, Germany
Floris, 8, inspects a mirror cube at the “Extavium” museum in Potsdam, eastern Germany. The new interactive museum, formerly known as “Exploratorium Potsdam”, re-opened with much more space for its 130 exhibits and interactive offers for children and their parents. (AFP)
Visitors Ride Three-Story Slide at New York’s New Museum
A visitor to the Carsten Holler: Experience exhibit at the New Museum in New York rides “Untitled (Slide)” during the press preview. (Mary Altaffer / AP) Continue reading »
Workers Prepare to Move 340-ton Rock to L.A. County Museum of Art
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was condemned by the gods to push a giant rock up a hill for eternity. In modern-day LA, the city’s largest museum has spent months — and $5 million to $10 million — trying to get a 340-ton boulder from a dusty quarry in Riverside onto its campus west of downtown.
Joe Schofield stands in front of a 340-ton rock as he and other workers prepare to transport the rock from Riverside County to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art at Stone Valley Materials in Riverside, Calif. (Jae C. Hong / AP) Continue reading »
Gucci Museum Opening In Florence, Italy
A general view of the dinner set up for the Gucci Museum opening at Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio on September 26, 2011 in Florence, Italy. (Vittorio Zunino Celotto / Getty Images Europe) Continue reading »
Traenenpalast Museum Opens To The Public in Berlin
A visitor looks at a display of video monitors once used by East German border police at the Traenenpalast museum on its first day open to the public on September 15, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. The museum documents the history of the Friedrichstrasse crossing between East and West Berlin. Located at the end of an East Berlin subway line, it was the final point of departure for West Germans returning west after visiting relatives in the East, which earned the building the popular name Traenenpalast, or Palace of Tears. Border gaurds often subjected travelers to inordinately long waits and meticulous searches. The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 separated families and friends overnight as the East German government mostly forbid its citizens from travelling west. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images Europe) Continue reading »
Doraemon gets Museum in Japan
Doraemon charactors are displayed during a press preview on the rooftop playground of the Kawasaki City Fujiko F. Fujio Museum in Kawasaki on August 22, 2011. The museum exhibiting works of art produced by Fujiko F. Fujio, acclaimed author and manga artist, will open to the public on September 3. (AFP PHOTO / TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA) Continue reading »
Masami Yamagiwa for the Museum of Everything
Figurines by Japanese artist Masami Yamagiwa go on show for the Museum of Everything art project at the Selfridges department store in London. (BBC News)
Ben Greenman’s Museum of Silly Charts
Ben Greenman is an author and editor at the New Yorker, who has been making infographics for an upcoming fiction project. Continue reading »
