The Last Museum lets you semantically search 6.3 million artworks spanning 5,000 years
The Last Museum: Semantic search across 5.8M artworks from major museums
The Last Museum indexes more than 6.3 million artworks from major museums, stretching from 3000 BC to 2026, and lets you search them by meaning rather than keywords. Masterpieces like The Starry Night, Girl with a Pearl Earring, and The Night Watch sit alongside lesser-known works, all reachable through a single semantic search interface.
Search across 6,308,174 artworks from 3000 BC to 2026.
- 8s2ngy
I was thinking of doing something like this myself. I've been pondering how to use AI to support, rather than subordinate, human work. Instead of using AI-generated artworks for blog posts and press releases, it would be better to use AI to "intelligently" search across humanity's collective oeuvre and find artwork relevant to the accompanying text. Once the AI hype dies down a little, it would be worth thinking about how we can highlight or enhance human creativity instead of downright replacing it.
- cj00
I used the same concept to build a searchable database of YouTube thumbnails in my watch history. I always end up trying to remember a video I didn't finish from a week or two ago and YouTube's history search plain sucks. So I built an app that tracks all my watch history across all devices, downloads the thumbnails and runs them through a local Gemma model to write a paragraph description and OCR any text in the thumbnail.
Currently at 30,000 thumbnails described, basically 2 years of watch history. Search is via FTS5 in SQLite and works great on an 8 year old MacBook Pro.
- billbrown
"Art Deco" search is _terrific_