The Internet Museum

One of the most attractive things that NYC and other big cities have are its museums, they all are fascinating cults to ancient cultures and to modern creations. I feel so fascinated every time I visit a different one, for example I recently went to The American Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria (Queens) which carries a lot of original cinematographer machines, cool interactive editing rooms with all the necessary devices to play with audio and video as if it was for a real film and thousands of stories of filmmakers. There are also some spectacular customs and animatronics from films of the 80s and 90s you would really enjoy watching, the authentic ones they used at the shootings (including the possessed girl in The Exorcist with all and her bed!).

But I must say that no other museum I had seen up to now has really kept my attention for so many hours as The Internet Museum did. This is an authentic collection of all kind of Internet "jewels", ranging from Yahoo! plastic bags to Google's music CDs and fun key chains. Here you will find precious gimmicks of yet sunk Internet companies that wanted to position their brands and have a portion of today's Internet budgets, but didn't survive. Other successfully made it and are still giving their souvenirs at every single event of the industry year after year.

The Internet Museum claims they are open 24x7x365, but please be sure to arrive early when you visti, you don't want to wait so long in the line to enter. Admission to The Internet Museum is free. Membership is also free and open to the public. Just to let you know... they have some weird Luggage Policy; Luggage is not allowed into the Museum and cannot be checked in at the Museum's coat-check facilities.

About the trustees of the museum: Sara Holoubek, an interactive industry advisor, has been collecting rare Internet artifacts since 1999 with the intent of some day building The Internet Museum. Her tireless efforts to curate her collection and create a permanent home became a reality in 2006 when she met Morgan Friedman.

You are all invited to donate your collections, it will make us all happy for a while and have some fun when doing nothing in the middle of the day... except Search!