BitBasel · Lunaprise Moon Museum
Art on
the Moon
Preserving Art for a Billion Years
In 2022, BitBasel's CryptoArt for Impact and Innovation Challenge invited artists worldwide to create work in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Twenty-two were selected.
Their artworks were inscribed on NanoFiche archival discs and launched to the Moon aboard the Intuitive Machines Odysseus lander on February 22, 2024. They now rest at the lunar south pole, preserved for over a billion years.
This is the story of their art, their goals, and the journey from Miami to the Moon.
The Mission
From the founding of the Arch Mission Foundation to the black-tie launch gala at Kennedy Space Center and the landing at the lunar south pole.
The Art
Meet the CryptoArt for Impact winners whose work now rests on the Moon, each addressing a UN Sustainable Development Goal.
Technology
NanoFiche: nickel discs engraved at 300,000 DPI, designed to survive a billion years on the lunar surface without power or maintenance.
The Book
88 pages, Smyth-sewn hardcover, 22 full-page reproductions, and NASA mission photography. The SDG Edition.
The first American Moon landing in 52 years carried not just instruments and experiments, but a museum — 222 art projects spanning 30,000 years of human creativity, inscribed on nickel discs designed to last a billion years.