Abstract
The idea of a ‘museum’ on the moon seems to be taken from a B-movie or a pulp science fiction magazine, although the surprising thing is that it actually is a reality, of sorts. Just how a miniature artwork by six of the most important American artists of the 1960s came to be surreptitiously etched onto a small ceramic wafer the size of a SIM card attached to one of the legs of the lunar module of the Apollo 12 mission and secretly dispatched to the moon in November 1969 (the second manned mission), has all the ingredients of a mystery film and questions the very notion of what a museum is, representing as well one of the most exciting adventures in the history of 20th Century art, embodying the spirit of a decade of optimism and faith in the redemptive power of technology.
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