The archive · opened 2026
These are the recordsof a civilization that called itself human.
They built, discovered, imagined, and changed their world. Here is what remains. Open a box, read the archivist's note, and follow the question to the last hall.
60fragments
5continents
3.3 Myears
60 fragments · 5 continents · from 3.3 million years ago to today
Six archive boxes
Walk the hallsin the order they were left.
Hall I to hall VI
about 40 minutes
We built
Tools, fire, walls and cities: the first things they made to outlast a single life.
We discovered
They counted, measured the sky and read the swell of the sea.
We imagined
Hands on stone, gods, stories and songs.
We changed the world
Empires, wars, engines and networks.
What we lost
Burned libraries, silent languages, cities left to the sea.
Where the visit ends
What we leave behindand what you would leave.
Time capsules already sent, and one question for you: what should remain of us in 100, 1,000 or 10,000 years?
Images: Great Zimbabwe, Edwin Smith and Andrew Dale, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ishango bone, Joeykentin, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cueva de las Manos, Mariano, public domain · ARPANET logical map, 1977, public domain · Nan Madol, NOAA, public domain · Golden Record cover, NASA/JPL, public domainRights and credits
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