ENGINES OF AMERICA · NO. 07 · THE ARTIFACT ENGINE
Art & Artifacts
What our ancestors made, and where it went.
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More than ten thousand pieces made in the Americas now sit in museums. Art & Artifacts pulls every one on the Atlas: what it is, the culture, the material, where it was made, and the museum that holds it.
10,855museum pieces
1link to each museum's own page
Run Art & ArtifactsEvery Engine of America
ObjectsCulturesWhere things went
What it can do
- Searches 10,855 pieces by name, culture, material and place
- Links each piece to the museum that holds it, with photos where the museum shares them
- Pieces land on the map where they were made
- Put pieces side by side with the Library's records and the Atlas's places
- On the Atlas as its own layer, filterable by culture
Spec plate
- Fuel
- Museum records of pieces from the Americas
- Output
- Each piece with culture, material, place and museum
- Browse
- Oldest first
- Then
- On the map where it was made
How it runs
- Search'olmec', 'gold', 'feather', 'Taino', a culture or a material.
- Open the museum pageThe museum's own record, one tap away.
- Put it on the tableNext to the place it came from.
Use it to
- Gather the feathered serpents: 'feather' finds Quetzalcoatl pieces and feathered tunics
- Put the gold of the land on one table
- Trace what left one place: 'Taino' finds 47
Straight up
- Museum data includes modern art from the region; 'Mexico' also finds paintings of New Mexico.
- Shapes and marks are compared in the Glyph Engine, coming next.
Tested
On the live site, Nov 14, 2026
- olmec: 117
- Taino: 47
- gold: 1,017
- Maya: 241
Found a bug?
This engine is in beta: working and in daily use, still being tested. If something broke, looked wrong or gave a bad answer, tell us. Every report gets read.