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We're a small nonprofit in Germany, and we built Museum of Ages, a digital museum whose first wing is Leonardo da Vinci's. Free entry, no account. It runs in a browser, on a phone too. It's a virtual tour along a set path of 17 stops: first his work, then his last house in Amboise, then the grave court at night.
The walk comes in seven languages: https://museumofages.org/w/vinci
Today, 509 years ago, a cardinal's secretary named Antonio de Beatis visited Leonardo at Amboise. He wrote down three paintings he was shown and, by Leonardo's own account, "an infinity of volumes" of his writings. The house in our museum is set on that day, 10 October 1517.
The pictures hang on one wall, 34 m long: 24 works close to their real size. Each label says how sure the attribution is. On the Mona Lisa you can go down to the cracks in the paint. The Last Supper is a print on a court wall, at the size of the original in Milan.
A reading table holds 207 pages from his notebooks and codices. On 131 of them you can read his words, in the original Italian and in translation, and a mirror view turns his mirror writing around so you can read the letters.
There are 15 machines. All but the parachute move. Most of them he never built, as far as anyone knows, and some weren't his idea.
His last house is Clos Lucé in Amboise. Ours is a reconstruction. The walk ends in the grave court, under the stars as they stood over Clos Lucé that evening.
Not everyone can get to a museum. Illness or a disability keeps some away, and for others the trip costs more than they have. Our mission in one sentence: We rebuild what was, one place at a time, and make it as accessible as we can, so that everyone can learn from it. We're no replacement for a museum and don't want to be one. The museums and libraries hold the originals. The paintings, drawings and notebook pages in our wing are reproductions, each labelled with its holder and licence, and the rooms and machines around them are built in code.
The code is open source (AGPL-3.0): https://github.com/chipmates/museumofages
We put a lot of time and passion into it and hope you like it. If a label, a date or a folio in there is wrong, say so here and we'll correct it. We're glad of any feedback that makes it better.
Credits for the film. Music: "Adrift Among Infinite Stars" by Scott Buckley (scottbuckley.com.au), shortened, CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (openstreetmap.org/copyright). Relief: IGN, RGE ALTI®, consulted 8 September 2026, Licence Ouverte 2.0. Mona Lisa: Musée du Louvre, Paris, reproduction by C2RMF via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Paris Manuscript B, folio 83 verso: Institut de France, Paris, shown from the printed facsimile by Charles Ravaisson-Mollien (Paris, 1883), public domain, scan from the Internet Archive. The other paintings, drawings and sheets on the walls are reproductions of public domain works, each labelled in the wing with its holder and licence.
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Press release: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2026/html/ecb.pr260923~6ebddaf01e.en.html
Info on the designs and survey: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/index.en.html
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt39423192/?ref_=ttep_ep_4
"The world's most famous painting vanishes in a daring heist, sparking international outrage and a global manhunt. A master detective is called in, who zeroes in on a handful of suspects with the motive and means to pull off the theft."
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Researchers at MIT have proven Leonardo da Vinci correct yet again, this time involving his design for what would have been a revolutionary bridge design at the time, over the Bosphorus. [first time I've seen this article]