In addition to offering utilitarian helper pages for people who land on an old or broken link, cultural organizations have an opportunity to have a little fun with their collections on their 404 pages. So, I asked for examples and the museum technology community delivered!
Here are some of my favorite examples:
MoMA: Ed Ruscha’s “OOF” (1962) (h/t Chad Weinard)
V&A: Mirror, ca. 1675 (h/t Kati Price)
Jewish Museum (h/t Essie Lash)
Museo Nacional del Prado: Rogier van der Weyden, (detail) “The Descent from the Cross” (h/t Mark B. Schlemmer)
Mount Vernon (h/t Abigail Kabaker)
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Innovation Studio (h/t Jeffrey Inscho)
National Gallery of Art: Claude-Joseph Vernet “The Shipwreck” (h/t John Gordy)
