CW: Vertigo

February 27, 2018 7:15 AM

MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies Special Digital Collection. It's a presentation of the Center's collection of 20th century art as a 3-D "virtual museum". Start scrolling, branch off onto specific topics, and get lost -- just like in a real museum! (h/t The Outline.)
posted by Cash4Lead (4 comments total)

I don't think you used enough quotation marks. It should be more like as a "3"-"D" "virtual" "museum" and should be read making air quotes with your fingers as well.

The only way this makes any sense is that the idea of using a 3d metaphor for an online museum is in itself super dated and probably belongs in a museum of obsolete web design concepts.
posted by signal at 8:08 AM on February 27, 2018 [4 favorites]

The archives for particular categories are much easier to navigate.
posted by OverlappingElvis at 8:10 AM on February 27, 2018 [1 favorite]

Oh, and you can browse by subject as well.
posted by OverlappingElvis at 8:12 AM on February 27, 2018

Oh god, scroll wheel is zoom? So how about down, no... Scroll bar? how the hell do I even

You know what? Nope, nope. I'm good, thanks again, Media Lab.
posted by maryr at 7:03 PM on February 27, 2018