Arkive: A decentralized museum curated by its members.
Summary
Rather, museums have historically relied on curators, collectors, and benefactors to decide which artifacts are important and worthy of display. As a result, the history available for the public to experience is still largely determined by exclusion, and not inclusion.Thanks to the proliferation of the internet and social media, the way culture is observed and defined has shifted a lot over the past two decades. We believe curation can reflect a broader swath of socio-economic interests, while still maintaining the rigor and standards of quality upheld by the world s finest institutions.During my time with Omni, situations arose that made me think: What if these warehouses were all just giant museums? We had a Rembrandt etching, vintage comic books, sports cards in sealed slab cases, and lots of other incredible objects.The solution we landed on was to create private secure vault areas for these artifacts each vault was basically a little mini gallery. I couldnt escape this nagging thought, what if we built a museum from the ground up?Years later, I saw this idea replicated with NFTs people started enshrining digital art in on-chain immortality.