Museum of Blue
Rethinking Harvard Art Musuem Through ColorRoleConcept Development, Prototyping, AI Assisted Design
Advisor Eric Rodenbeck
Founder of Stamen Design
Lecturer in Architecture
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Museum of Blue is an AI-powered curatorial system that reindexes museum collections by color semantics. Combining computer vision, pigment-aware inference, and semantic clustering, the project analyzes nearly 4,000 artworks to reveal how blue operates across art history - from skies and water to garments and architecture, generating adaptive museum experiences in real time.
Recognition
Project received endorsement from Chief Curator of Harvard Art Museum. Implementation at HAM in progress.
Around 3,900 paintings scraped from the Harvard Art Museums API, with full metadata, as the raw input for everything that follows.
A 2D semantic projection where each blue object is a point, similar objects cluster together, and color shows cultural origin.