| Resource | Summary | Link | Service/Goal | Provider | Chain | Tags | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
British Museum | NFTs of works by Hokusai & Turner sold as a crowdfunding project | MerchandisingCrowdfunding | LaCollection | Ethereum | Museum ExampleNFTs | September 30, 2021 | |
Cryptocurrency donation now being accepted at Buffalo History Museum, Bitcoin Press (December 2021) | Buffalo History Museum is now accepting donations in cryptocurrency including Bitcoin and Eth | NewsMuseum Example | December 1, 2021 | ||||
Epoch Gallery & LACMA | EPOCH gallery announcement of ECHOES exhibition in collaboration with LACMA’s Art and Tech Lab (15th Feb) | Exhibition | Algorand Foundation | Algorand | Museum ExampleArtworkNFTsNewsExhibition | February 15, 2022 | |
Furtherfield Gallery | Furtherfield is one of the pioneering galleries investigating blockchain and art. They have instigated many exhibitions, works and discussions on DAOS and blockchain | Research | Museum Example | ||||
ICA Miami | Acquisition of CryptoPunk 5293, gifted from Eduardo Burillo | Acquisition | Ethereum | Museum Example | July 1, 2021 | ||
Leopold Museum | The Leopold Museum is partnering with LaCollection to sell an exclusive NFT collection of 24 paintings and drawings by Schiele | Crowdfunding | LaCollection | Ethereum | Museum Example | May 6, 2022 | |
Lobkowicz Collections | NFT Exhibition and conference ‘Non-Fungible Castle’. Auction on SuperRare | CrowdfundingResearch | SuperRare | Ethereum | Museum Example | October 16, 2021 | |
Lobkowicz NFT Auctions | website to explore the Lobkowicz Collection of commissioned NFTs | Museum ExampleNFTsCollecting | October 16, 2021 | ||||
MAK Vienna Becomes First Museum to Use Bitcoin to Acquire Art, a Harm van den Dorpel by Ghorashi, Art News (April 2015) | Article on Museum of Applied Arts/ Contemporary Art (MAK) purchasing vent Listeners by Hamd van den Dorpel using Bitcoin | Bitcoin | NewsMuseum ExampleCollecting | April 16, 2015 | |||
Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery Develops Blockchain App to Bring Russian Art to the World by George Nerlson , The Art Newspaper (December 2018) | Article on new venture by Tretyakov Gallery which incites users to explore and sponsor more than 190,000 works in the collection | CollectingMuseum ExampleNews | December 18, 2018 | ||||
National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU) | The National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU) partnered with Stampsdaq (Estonia) to digitize part of their collection and sell them as NFTs. | Stampsdaq | Polygon | Museum Example | February 1, 2022 | ||
NFTs of Old Masters—good or bad?, by Georgina Adam, The Art Newspaper (March 2022) | An opinion piece about NFT sales of digital copies of major museum masterpieces. | Fundraising | NewsMuseum ExampleFundraising | February 27, 2022 | |||
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) | The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp just became the first European institution to offer art security tokens (ASTs), allowing buyers to own a virtual share of an Expressionist work in its collection. | Crowdfunding | Rubey | Polygon | Museum Example | April 27, 2022 | |
The Belvedere Museum | The Belvedere Museum has partnered with ArtèQ to fractionalize a high definition digital edition of Klimt’ ‘The Kiss’ | Crowdfunding | ArtéQ | Ethereum | NFTsArtworkMuseum Example | February 14, 2022 | |
The British Museum’s NFT Project has Sent its Carbon Footprint Soaring, by Bendor Grosvenor, The Arts Newspaper (April 2022) | Discusses the impact of the BM’s NFT project in relation to its sustainability policy. | Museum ExampleCriticismNFTsNewsEnvironment | April 6, 2022 | ||||
The Hermitage Museum Aims to Raise Funds in Russia with NFTs by Manuel Charr, MuseumNext (July 2021) | Article on the Hermitage’s attempt at NFTs, discusses the issues of digital asset laws in Russia and whether this might impact this initiative. | Binance | Museum ExampleNewsNFTs | August 1, 2021 | |||
The National Museums Liverpool | As part of a PhD collaboration with the University of Manchester, the NML minted a series of personalised NFTs to explore how this might inform a sense of collective ownership in collections and create social value. The NFTs were not for sale but focused on how these tokens could be used outside of the monetary sense | Community EngagementResearch | University of Manchester & Peera LTD. | Ethereum | Museum ExampleNFTs | July 1, 2020 | |
The Seattle Museum | New museum dedicated explicitly to NFTs | ExhibitionAcquisition | Museum ExampleNFTsNews | January 5, 2022 | |||
The State Hermitage Museum | Exhibition explaining blockchain and NFTs | Exhibition | Museum ExampleNFTsArtworkExhibition | November 10, 2021 | |||
The State Hermitage Museum NFT | The museum has minted a selection of of well-known paintings from the collection to sell at auction | Crowdfunding | BinanceEthereum | Museum Example | |||
The Whitworth | NFTs produced of a developed reproduction of Ancient of Days by William Blake, sold as an experiment and crowdfund. | Crowdfunding | Vastari Labs | Tezos | Museum ExampleNFTsArtwork | July 28, 2021 | |
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art | Virtual Exhibition | Exhibition | Museum Example | November 16, 2021 | |||
Uffizi Gallery NFTs | In collaboration with the Cinello Company and their creation ‘DAW’s, The Uffizi sold works by Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo as an NFT in a bid to recoup losses from the Pandemic. | Crowdfunding | Cinello | Museum ExampleNFTsNews | May 14, 2021 | ||
Ukraine launches NFT museum ‘to keep the memory of war’ by Turner Wright, Cointelegraph (March 2022) | News that the Ministry of Digital Transformation in Ukraine has initiated a ‘Museum of War’ to document the events of the Ukraine-Russia War | Museum ExampleNewsNFTs | March 25, 2022 | ||||
ZKM Centre for Art and Media | Crypto Art Exhibition on the history of crypto art | AcquisitionExhibitionResearch | BitcoinEthereum | Museum Example | April 1, 2021 |