The Museum of Failure

June 7th The Museum of Failure will open its doors in Sweden.

"Museum of Failure is a collection of interesting innovation failures. The majority of all innovation projects fail and the museum showcases these failures to provide visitors a fascinating learning experience.

The collection consists of over sixty failed products and services from around the world. Every item provides unique insight into the risky business of innovation."

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Vampires! They do exist!

Oh no ... sorry, I was too fast writing the title. It's a project by Alex C.F., an artist. He created the fictional Merrylin Cryptid Museum, full of cabinets of curiosity, even Cthulhu. All very realistic.

More info over here.

Data visualization of the MoMa - the MoMa Exhibition Spelunker

The MoMa Exhibition Spelunker: 60 years of exhibition data that can be searched. In how many exhibitions was an artist present. What did the exhibitions look like. In short: have fun spelunking.

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MOBA - Museum Of Bad Art

There's a museum for everything, also for bad art.

"The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) is a community-based, private institution dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms and in all its glory."

Perfectly preserved corpses

I have visited Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds twice. Once in the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam, years ago, and once in Rotterdam. At this moment it's in Amsterdam again. Surreal and a playground for medical students.

10 years ago Gunther von Hagens started The Plastinarium in Guben, Germany. Here, 40 different scientists are performing the art of plastination. Creepy and beautiful and intriguing at the same time.

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Viktor Wynd’s Cabinet Of Wonders

Next visit East London. To Victor Wynd's Wunderkammer. A museum packed with collections.

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Please Donate Your Penis

The only penis museum in the world, in Iceland (of all places), has penisses from all sorts of species ... except a human one. They need The Final Member. You love art? Be a patron of this museum. Donate!

The Innocence Of Objects

Guess I have to go to Istanbul.

"The Museum of Innocence created in Istanbul by the Turkish novelist and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk. This small, beautifully realized, vertical display, which occupies a burgundy-hued house in the city’s Çukurcuma neighborhood, is a parallel project planned for many years by Pamuk as a development of his 2008 novel, also titled The Museum of Innocence."

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Hipsters In The Louvre

Cool project. Love it!

The famous statues at the Louvre in Paris recently got a stylish, sartorial makeover… hip new threads to go with their relaxed, modelesque demeanors. French photographer Léo Caillard teamed up with digital mastermind Alexis Persani to digitally rework the marble figures, bringing them into the modern era with plaid shirts, skinny jeans, boat shoes and, of course, Ray-Bans!

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Dangerous Art

Exploding art by Cai Guo-Qiang.

Over 40,000 rockets blasting off from the wall of the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. On Saturday April 7, artist Cai Guo-Qiang marked the opening of his exhibition with "Mystery Circle: Explosion Event for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles"; a site-specific work created for MOCA.

SANAA vs Lady Gaga

Can a building ever be compared to Lady Gaga? Most experts may say no, but they obviously haven't seen the New Museum, one of the best looking museums ever made according to Delaine Isaac.

The New Museum, founded as the New Museum of Contemporary Art by Marcia Tucker in 1977, is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to presenting contemporary art from around the world. On December 1, 2007, the New Museum opened its first freestanding, dedicated building at 235 Bowery.

The building, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA with Gensler, New York, serving as executive Architect, is expressed as a series of six asymmetrically stacked aluminum-clad rectilinear boxes shifted off-axis around a central steel core. Sejima + Nishizawa's inspiration came from the traditional set-backs exhibited by some of the city's earlier skyscrapers. The facade is shrouded in 3,270 square meters of expanded aluminum, originally developed in the United Kingdom as a means of reinforcing roads. It was the first time this medium has been employed in the United States. The basement of the New Museum features a 188-seat theater.

The Cockroach Hall Of Fame & Museum

If you are ever in Plano. Texas you will have to visit the Cockroach Hall of Fame & Museum.

Virtual Elysee Palace

Take a virtual tour in the Elysee Palace, Paris.

No Facebook Without The Dutch

Created for the Dutch Maritime Museum, Het Scheepvaart Museum, to announce their new Facebook fanapge. Created by One Big Agency, CCCP, and Super Heroes.

 

Computer Games Museum In Berlin

Okay, now I definitely have to visit Berlin again. Computerspielemuseum / Computer Games Museum in Berlin.

"The Berlin Computerspiele (computer games) Museum originally opened in 1997 - but the new permanent exhibition tracking the evolution of computer games just opened in January and gives the museum a brand-new feel, really emphasizing all the old-school games."

 

Barbara Kruger - I Hate Myself ...

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NGVstudio - Everfresh - Graffiti Always Wins

"Everfresh was invited by the National Gallery of Victoria to be part of the new space soon to open at Fed Square called the NGVSTUDIO."

NGVstudio - Everfresh - Graffiti always wins from Everfresh Studio on Vimeo.

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Wim Crouwel Wallpaper

I would love to paper my walls with Wim Crouwel Wallpaper

Google Art Project

Like Google Maps, but then with museums.

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KitKat - Work Of Art

Very good. People think art is something that's in a museum. Shame on them. Put a fire extinguisher in the middle of a museum and a lot of fancy glasses wearing trendy people are going to flock around to interpret it. This is cool!!!!