The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 to bring art and art education to the American people. The Met is the largest art museum in the Western Hemisphere. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial de…
With collection and display practices from the Enlightenment as inspiration for the website, we modelled a desktop environment around the theme of an “alchemist’s workshop”. The user looks down on an open book where the product catalogue sits surrounded by found objects, photographed from MoonaLisa’s very own collection of curiosities.