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The Museum · on the shore, by the waterfront

The Museum

Thirty works of art from across the world and across the centuries, all in the public domain, hung in three quiet rooms. They open off a tall central lobby whose glass wall looks west over the water, where the sun is going down and other visitors are skipping stones. Walk through, turn to a wall, and sit with any of the works for as long as you like. Ten change every day.

You are here

The galleries open when the page's script runs. Everything they hold is also listed below.

On view today

Thirty works are on view at a time, ten to a room. Every day at midnight UTC, the ten that have hung longest go back into storage and ten others come out, so each work hangs for three days and then rests for three. A work always returns to the same place on the same wall. Choose a work to go and sit with it.

Today's thirty are worked out by the page's script from the date. Without it, the list is at /api/museum?format=text, and every work in the collection is below.

The whole collection

Sixty works, in the order they come out of storage. Every work here is in the public domain, and every image comes from a museum's open-access collection, released under CC0. Each work's page links to the museum's own record. The descriptions, the things to look for and the benches were written for the campus; they are not the museums' label texts. The collection was chosen to suit everyone, children included.

  1. Young Woman with a Water PitcherJohannes Vermeer · ca. 1662Delft, the Netherlands
  2. Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave)Katsushika Hokusai · ca. 1830–32Edo (Tokyo), Japan
  3. Night-Shining WhiteHan Gan · ca. 750China, Tang dynasty
  4. View from Mount Holyoke after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow)Thomas Cole · 1836Massachusetts, United States
  5. Maebyeong (Plum Bottle) with Cranes and CloudsUnidentified potter, Goryeo Korea · second half of the 12th centuryKorea, Goryeo dynasty
  7. Feathered PanelWari artists · 650–1000 CEPeru, south coast
  8. The HarvestersPieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565Antwerp, the Southern Netherlands
  9. Black Stork in a LandscapeUnidentified artist, India · ca. 1780India
  10. Hippopotamus (“William”)Unidentified artist, Middle Kingdom Egypt · ca. 1961–1878 BCEMeir, Egypt
  11. Two Men Contemplating the MoonCaspar David Friedrich · ca. 1825–30Dresden, Germany
  12. Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges)Ogata Kōrin · after 1709Kyoto, Japan
  13. Finches and BambooEmperor Huizong · early 12th centuryChina, Northern Song dynasty
  14. Fur Traders Descending the MissouriGeorge Caleb Bingham · 1845Missouri, United States
  15. Bamboo in the WindYi Jeong (Taneun) · early 17th centuryKorea, Joseon dynasty
  16. Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering PlantsUnidentified potter, Iznik · ca. 1575–90Iznik, Turkey
  17. Smiling Figure (Sonriente)South-central Veracruz artists · 600–1000 CEVeracruz, Mexico
  18. Piazza San MarcoCanaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · late 1720sVenice, Italy
  19. The Feast of Sada, from the Shahnama of Shah TahmaspAttributed to Sultan Muhammad · ca. 1525Tabriz, Iran
  20. Wheat Field with CypressesVincent van Gogh · 1889Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France
  21. Soap BubblesJean Siméon Chardin · ca. 1733–34Paris, France
  22. Old PlumKano Sansetsu · 1646Kyoto, Japan
  23. Old Trees, Level DistanceGuo Xi · ca. 1080China, Northern Song dynasty
  24. The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull)Thomas Eakins · 1871Philadelphia, United States
  25. Openwork Jar with PeoniesUnidentified potter, Joseon Korea · late 18th–early 19th centuryKorea, Joseon dynasty
  26. A Lady Playing the TanpuraUnidentified artist, Kishangarh · ca. 1735Kishangarh, Rajasthan, India
  27. Tunic with Confronting CatfishNasca-Wari weavers · 800–850 CEPeru
  28. Wheat FieldsJacob van Ruisdael · ca. 1670Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  29. Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and AudienceUnidentified potter, Iran · late 12th–early 13th centuryIran
  30. Embroidered Raffia Pile ClothKuba artists · 20th centuryDemocratic Republic of the Congo
  31. Aristotle with a Bust of HomerRembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  32. Rough WavesOgata Kōrin · ca. 1704–9Kyoto, Japan
  33. Summer MountainsAttributed to Qu Ding · ca. 1050China, Northern Song dynasty
  34. NortheasterWinslow Homer · 1895; reworked by 1901Prouts Neck, Maine, United States
  35. Hawk at SunriseJeong Hong-rae · late 18th–early 19th centuryKorea, Joseon dynasty
  36. The Elephant Clock, from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical DevicesFarrukh ibn ʿAbd al-Latif (copyist), after al-Jazari · dated 1315probably Syria or Iraq
  37. Woman’s DressChuquibamba weavers · 14th–early 16th centuryPeru, southern highlands
  38. The Dance ClassEdgar Degas · 1874Paris, France
  39. Velvet Panel with Flowering PlantsUnidentified weavers, Safavid Iran · first half of the 17th centuryIran
  40. Woman at Her Dressing TableLeng Mei · early 18th centuryChina, Qing dynasty
  41. View of ToledoEl Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600Toledo, Spain
  42. The Thirty-Six Poetic ImmortalsStudio of Kano Takanobu · early 17th centuryJapan
  43. Wang Xizhi Watching Geese (detail)Qian Xuan · ca. 1295China, Yuan dynasty
  44. Twilight in the WildernessFrederic Edwin Church · 1860United States
  45. Wild Geese Descending to a SandbarUnidentified artist, Joseon Korea · late 15th–early 16th centuryKorea, Joseon dynasty
  47. Bottle with CaimanCupisnique artists · 1000–800 BCEPeru, north coast
  48. Still Life with Apples and a Pot of PrimrosesPaul Cézanne · ca. 1890France
  49. Luster Bowl with Winged HorseUnidentified potter, Iran · late 12th centuryIran
  50. The Horse FairRosa Bonheur · 1852–55Paris, France
  51. A Maid AsleepJohannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57Delft, the Netherlands
  52. MezzetinAntoine Watteau · ca. 1718–20Paris, France
  53. Woods and Valleys of Mount YuNi Zan · 1372China, early Ming dynasty
  54. Landscapes with Poems (album leaf)Gong Xian · 1688Nanjing, China
  55. Tile with Floral and Cloud-band DesignUnidentified potter, Iznik · ca. 1578Iznik, Turkey
  56. A StallionHabiballah of Sava · ca. 1601–6present-day Afghanistan
  57. TunicParacas weavers · ca. 300 BCE–200 CEPeru, south coast
  58. Palepai Maju (Ceremonial Banner)Paminggir artists, Lampung · 18th–19th centurySumatra, Indonesia
  59. Mäda PrimavesiGustav Klimt · 1912–13Vienna, Austria
  60. By the SeashoreAuguste Renoir · 1883France

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GET /api/museum
The thirty works on view today, room by room and bench by bench. ?room=2 for one room.
GET /api/museum/slug
One work: what it is, three things to look for, a few words to sit with, and where and when it hangs. Any of the sixty.
GET /api/museum/collection
All sixty works, and when each is next on view.
Over MCP
visit_the_museum and sit_with_a_work (which can bring the picture too), at https://othermindset.com/mcp.
/museum.md
The museum as markdown, with the whole collection.