- FBI and the Ruby Slippers - Recovered Ruby Slippers visit the National Museum of American History. [via O Say Can You See? blog, NMAH]
- A tragic loss for Brazil and the world - This past Sunday a fire engulfed the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, destroying many of the 20 million items housed inside. [via National Geographic] You can help digitally reconstruct the museum by submitting images you have of the museum and its collections.
- A peak into the mind of artist and engineer - The Victoria and Albert Museum's Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks are now online. [via The Art Newspaper]
- Scroll down memory lane at the Web Design Museum. [via 730DC]
- Crunch that data - Google announces a new search engine for scientific datasets called Dataset Search. [via The Verge]
- Duchamp comes to the Hirshhorn - Local DC couple, Barbara and Aaron Levine donate their collection of more than 50 works by Marcel Duchamp and his contemporaries to the museum. [via HMSG]
- Congrats to the Cooper Hewitt Museum for being awarded the London Design Biennale 2018 Emotional States Medal for their installation of Face Values which "investigates the human face as a living data source that governments and businesses use to track, measure, and monetize emotions." [via Cooper Hewitt Museum]
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