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The tiny, secret art museum we sent to the Moon — and how it got there

Ellsworth Toohey
Jun 11, 2025
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In 1969, a tiny ceramic wafer containing artwork by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and others was reportedly smuggled aboard Apollo 12. The Moon Museum is a tiny ceramic wafer (less than an inch in size) containing artwork by six prominent artists of the 1960s:

The story behind this secret art mission is just as compelling as the art it…

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