museums
Computing

Anti-Nazi Code-Cracking Machine Rebuilt

Despite there being no original parts left of the Tunny machine post-WWII, a crack-team of British computer boffins were able to rebuild the code-cracking machine, which played a huge part in intercepting Hitler’s commands.

May 27, 2011
Geek Out

Who Wouldn’t Want To Try A 360 Hardflip No-Hands Superman On This Skate Park Building?

Ok, so I may’ve made that trick up, and the Cité de l’Océan et du Surf Museum in France might not be a skate park. Just they try and stop the local kids from skating in that half-ramp, though!

May 12, 2011
Geek Out

Walk Through The 2011 Smart Home With Joe Brown

If you haven’t had a chance to stop by MSI in Chicago to check out the 2011 Smart Home exhibit, it’s cool – you’re busy, we understand. Gizmodo’s own Joe Brown recently gave Discovery Canada a guided tour through the exhibit, so you can see some our favourite items in the house without leaving your computer.

May 11, 2011
Geek Out

The Real-Life Museum Of Indiana Jones

Thirty years after his big screen debut in the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones is back on the scene and ready to inspire a new generation of budding archaeologists.

May 10, 2011
Gaming

The Extraordinary, Underground Museum Of Soviet Arcade Games

Back in 2007 I read an article on BoingBoing about a small “museum” of Soviet-era video games that had been opened by a couple of students in the basement of a small technical university about 30 minutes outside the centre of Moscow. The article was accompanied by awesome pictures of hulking consoles that looked like they were designed with the same sense of fun that an engineer would use to construct a hospital waiting room.

April 29, 2011
Geek Out

Here’s An Anvil-Shaped Museum In Mexico City

This is the Museo Soumaya, a building by designer FREE Fernando Romero EnterprisE, which has been recently completed in Mexico City – that’s right, this ain’t no render. Sitting in the city’s former industrial district, it’s surprising to see the structure spring up from the ground like some polished monolithic welding tool. It adds to the look that the facade is windowless, and made up of silver hexagonal aluminium tiles.

April 16, 2011
Science

How To Build The World’s Largest Dinosaur

As if the anyone needs additional incentive to be interested in a dinosaur exhibit beyond, like, dinosaurs, the American Museum of Natural History is opening The World’s Largest Dinosaurs, centred around a massive half-skin, half-dissected, life-sized Mamenchisaurus.

March 10, 2011
Gadgets

Check Out The 10 Screen Multitouch Exhibit At The National Museum Of Australia

Gizmodo AU

Anyone who has visited the National Museum of Australia in Canberra over the past six months may have come across a rather impressive exhibit telling the story of Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route, an important cultural part of Australian history. Why so impressive? It’s a 10-screen interactive multitouch exhibit.

March 9, 2011
Science

Who Gets The Space Shuttle Discovery When It Lands?

There’s a custody war brewing between interested parties over NASA’s space shuttle Discovery when it finally returns to Earth tomorrow for the final time. Houston’s Johnson Space centre, New York City’s Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, Seattle’s History of Flight Museum, Florida’s Kennedy Space centre, L.A.’s California Science centre, Dayton’s Museum of the United States Air Force and D.C.’s National Air and Space Museum are among 21 institutions vying to care for the shuttle once it’s retired. The cost? $US28.8 million.

February 15, 2011
Gaming

You Decide Which Video Games Are Displayed At The Smithsonian

Which video games deserve to be honoured for their art? Heavy Rain or Final Fantasy? Grim Fandango or Fallout? In the Smithsonian’s upcoming “The Art of Video Games” exhibition, gamers decide which titles make the cut.

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