The future of museums

AI Archive Project: three cockpits

• 1 · X-RAY: the museum as an organism: recognise patterns across 200 years.
• 2 · Random Walk: lose yourself in 200 years: discover connections.
• 3 · Director 2127: interpret and speculate from the future.

Simulation: the three cockpits in the Kunklerbau, 2027

Fun facts: 16 things you may not know about the museum

Pocket guide for your phone: 11 works in three lines each

Pocket guide, version 2: a slideshow where the three lines come first, then the picture

Art Haiku, version 3: guess a collection work from three lines (English and German)

A prototype. Findings come from public sources; records marked SIMULATED show what the full archive would add.

A random work from the collection

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Works in the collection of the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, as listed on Wikidata. Pictures from Wikimedia Commons.