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The Last Museum: Semantic search across 5.8M artworks from major museums

37 points • by surprisetalk • today at 12:40 PM • 9 comments • view on HN

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scanny • today at 3:09 PM

Would make sense to have a copywrite filter so you can specify to see only public domain images.

mcmcmc • today at 2:54 PM

Incredibly off-putting name for a search tool

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whilenot-dev • today at 3:11 PM

There's nothing between 1975-2026?

EDIT: Ok, there is, but it needs a query...

traceroute66 • today at 2:27 PM

Interesting concept. Its desperately missing a decent filter function though.

Just dumping a million results on the user to doom-scroll through is a bit problematic in terms of UI/UX.

dominotw • today at 2:21 PM

I searched for 'soviet' and it matched cylinder seal 3500bc https://lastmuseum.com/art/cylinder-seal-307

soviets were big into seals and govt procedures . maybe?

Wryivy94 • today at 1:58 PM

Curious whether the embeddings come off the images or the catalog text, because in my experience museum metadata is wildly uneven (half the Met's older records are basically "Vase, terracotta"). Also, do you dedupe across institutions?

asnull • today at 12:43 PM

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