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Innovation & Invention
Museum of African American Innovation and Invention

Every invention has a room. Every inventor has a name.

A working collections platform and a museum you can walk through. Each collection opens into its own gallery; artifacts hang on walls you turn to face. Every record carries its sources, its rights statement, and an honest note about what the museum does and does not hold.

Walk a gallery

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Recently catalogued

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Innovators

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Built to be used by other institutions

REST API

Read the whole catalog as JSON. Keys with scoped permissions for write and harvest access.

Route index

OAI-PMH

Dublin Core records over the standard harvesting protocol, with each collection exposed as a set.

Identify

Bulk export

CSV and JSON dumps, plus per-collection ZIP packages containing records and linked files.

objects.csv

Harvesting

Collectors for the Library of Congress, Smithsonian, DPLA, PatentsView, Wikidata, the Met and AIC, plus a robots-respecting web scraper. Nothing publishes without a curator.

Curator studio