Programming Museum

The Programming Museum exhibits source code as art. Each work is a real, runnable file — hung in a frame, lit from above, and hanging in a room you can walk through. There is a curator’s note beside every one saying what it does and why it is worth standing in front of, and the code itself is always there in full, as it was actually written.

The collection runs from hello, world in the languages that would say it differently — C, COBOL, x86-64 assembly and Brainfuck among them — through design patterns cut in one house style, classical algorithms, and real files borrowed from open source and hung on loan. The theatre gives free lectures on the arguments underneath all of it, and the guided tours argue for looking at particular works in a particular order.

Nothing here is behind a login, a paywall or an advertisement, and the museum collects nothing about you. Borrowed work is exhibited only under the MIT licence or the Unlicense, pinned to the commit it was taken from and shipping the licence it arrived with — which is why some famous programs are missing, and the provenance page says so plainly.