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Monday Edition
Layer Tennis made its triumphant return for 2009.
Hike up your tube socks and revisit the whole season.
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Now Showing
Exceptional exhibits are highlighted each quarter. Selections
from previous seasons are archived here.
The Board
Please consider joining our MoOM Board of Directors won't you? You'll receive some nice swag and can lord it over your less civic-mindec friends.
Winter 2009
Before the insidious music-industry-backed "NOW" collections took over, K-Tel was the global king of cross-genre/cross-label TV-marketed hits compilations. K-Tel Queen collects these gems on flickr, bringing back childhood memories like Power Play, inexplicably featuring Blondie, The Spinners, and Little River Band on one slab of vinyl. (The Swedish version is surprisingly hip by K-Tel standards: Madness! OMD! XTC! If only I'd had that one in fifth grade!)
One of the worst ideas man ever had was to take all of the most dangerous people and put them together in a cage. Unfortunately, no one's come up with a more inspired one. Or any other idea at all, really. As the brilliant exhibit The Art of the Shiv demonstrates, however, creativity is 99% boredom and 1% fear for one's life.
When you're on a long drive, ever wonder what's in all those semi-trucks you're passing? Fortunately, if you happen to catch one at the right time, it will likely fall over and spill out its entire contents. Be it soybeans, oranges, dead alligators or tomahawk missiles, Truck Spills is there to catalog what comes out of those massive trucks once they give up and just need to lie down for a while in the middle of the road.
By and large we tend to think of aliens visiting the earth as being from some highly advanced civilization, light years ahead of us in technology and parsecs away from us in distance. OK fine. But I like mine over the tree line beyond the backyard BBQ and I don't especially care for them visiting from the future, it's much cooler when they show up in the past.
When the Village People released their hit single "In the Navy" in 1979, they helped spread the word that, were you to join this branch of the Armed Forces, you'd be able to "learn science technology" and "study oceanography," among other alluring vocations. But with all those positives, why didn't they think to also mention how good the food is? One look at the Navy Department Library's collection of Holiday Menus from Ship to Shore, will have you eagerly heading to the recruiting office, just as those brave singing patriots would have wanted.
the Museum of online museums
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Welcome to the MoOM. The galleries are updated continuously, and new exhibitions are hung each quarter.
The Museum Campus
The Permanent Collection
Galleries, Exhibitions and Shows
† = Most recently added
Recently acquired but not-yet-collected exhibits, with descriptions, along with exhibits previously collected, can be found in the MoOM Annex, a part of the general Coudal Partners archives.
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The MoOM is a part of the Coudal Partners site. Based in Chicago, CP is a small design firm with big ideas.
MoOM Overview
Welcome to the Museum of Online Museums. On the MoOM main page you, will find the current exhibitions. The main collection is in the center column, divided into three subsections. On the left you'll find the five current featured exhibitions. The MoOM is updated continuously with major updates coming once each quarter.
An archive of previously featured exhibitions is available for browsing.
Those interested in supporting the MoOM as Benefactors also earn the right, but not the obligation, to post links to their own and other worthy collections. Information on serving on The Board is detailed in the Benefactors section.
A more detailed description of the MoOM Mission and galleries, as well as recent news and press clippings can be found here.
Special Feature
In honor of its recent renovation, we've assembled some information and a short film about the spiritual home of the MoOM, Crown Hall, at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
infrequent mail
The MoOM is updated extensively each quarter. For a quick note when that happens and occasional contests and other stuff, enter your email here. We won't ever abuse the privilege. Period.
