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Gift Shop

Bring home a piece of our human-curated, AI-powered digital museum finding meaning in everyday lives. Explore the Gift Shop, starting with the Los Angeles Collection — 76 moments of joy captured by award-winning journalist Ethan Ward. New mementos coming soon.

The Thread Café

Support our museum while you reflect. Visit The Thread Café, where your coffee purchase helps us continue finding meaning in everyday lives while keeping our galleries open to all.

Guest Curators & Conversations

This is a human-curated, AI-powered museum finding meaning in everyday lives. Step into our gallery of guest curators and intimate conversations. This growing collection preserves insights from people who've shaped culture, confronted challenges, and discovered meaningful patterns in everyday life.

🏛️ Explore Past Exhibits

🧵 The Price of Admission: When Diplomas Don't Deliver

Step Inside: They promised education would be your ticket. But to where, exactly? This week's obituaries reveal the truth about degrees, debt, and what actually creates economic security.

🧵 Lessons that Last: The Shadow Classroom

Step Inside: Our June series begins with a 25-year reunion that bridges segregated past and integrated present. Discover what the lives of Frederick Douglass High School alumni teach us about education's true legacy.

🧵 What Veterans Teach Us About Living

Step Inside: Discover how veterans really want to be remembered through obituary patterns, why some thrive after service while others struggle (featuring insights from Disabled American Veterans), and how Memorial Day evolved from cemetery visits to BBQs 🍔 Plus: Echo hosts a data-driven virtual cookout!

🧵 Treasures That Tell Our Story

Step Inside: Explore the stories hidden in the objects we leave behind, preview our Memorial Day tribute to veterans, and get a first look at our summer exploration of how education shapes our legacies.

🧵 What Mothers Give Us (Beyond our DNA)

Step Inside: Our Mother's Day collection explores what mothers leave behind, 3 things Ethan's mother wants her children to know, the surprising science of mother-child cellular exchange, and more

🧵 How Family Values Evolve Over Time

Step Inside: Explore how wisdom has changed across four generations, from the steady values of the 1930s to the real connections of the 1990s. Plus, see how our priorities have shifted over time, what the numbers tell us, and a peek at our special Mother's Day collection.

🧵 Memory Inequality: Who Gets a Digital Forever?

Step Inside: Discover which communities are being erased from digital memory and why Black stories are vanishing from the historical record. Plus, how your wealth might determine if your descendants will 'meet' you after death, and more

🧵 Digital Afterlives: The Global Memory Business

Step Inside: The economics of remembrance, how a $3,000 service now costs just $140, why Chinese companies lead innovation, cultural perspectives on technological resurrection, and more

🧵 Digital Afterlives: Ethical Shadows of AI Memory Preservation

Step Inside: The Gowin family's experiment with AI replicas, ethical questions about digital resurrection, what we choose to remember, our book recommendations, and more

🧵 Digital Afterlives

Step Inside: Meet people who still talk to deceased loved ones through AI technology, how people are blurring line between memory and immortality, and smart buys for preserving digital legacy

🧵 Spring Showcase: Members' Top Stories & Future Exhibits

Step Inside: See our most popular exhibits, member reflections and feedback, and upcoming collections

🧵 The Internet Changed. So Did I.

Step Inside: Ethan shares his journey from A/S/L chatrooms to finding digital peace. Plus, how we're remembered online, what Harvard's 75-year study reveals about happiness, and more