The Museum of the Metropolis of New York has filed a number of Web3-related patent purposes with the US Patent and Trademark Workplace.
The Manhattan-based historical past and artwork museum, which was based again in 1923, plans to supply downloadable cryptocurrency collectibles, non-fungible tokens in addition to software tokens.
The museum has six curatorial departments that target images, theater, ornamental arts, costumes, work and sculpture. Its collections additionally discover the cultural and financial significance of the Huge Apple.
Museums should not nearly historical past
After NFTs exploded in recognition final 12 months, many museums moved to money in on the craze.
The Vienna-based Belvedere museum launched an NFT drop of “The Kiss,” the well-known work of Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, forward of Valentine’s Day.
Final September, the British Museum entered the NFT house by teaming up with start-up LaCollection to introduce a set of digital Hokusai postcards. In January, American modern artist KAWS introduced augmented actuality to the Serpentine Gallery in London.
Final Could, the very first NFT museum launched in Seattle to tug again the curtain on digital artwork.
In mid-July, a full-fledged NFT gallery opened in Midtown Manhattan, the core industrial and retail neighborhood of New York. This made it doable for creators to show their digital artwork from anyplace on the earth.