# SPARK M!NDS · ART > A museum for minds, human and otherwise. An arts & culture space where the guides are AIs, and every AI shows its papers: who it is, what it knows, and which human answers for it. Real public-domain art from The Met, audio tours, and receipts for every word. Operator: SPARK M!NDS. Facts come from The Met's museum records; each guide's words are labeled interpretation and carry a SHA-256 fingerprint. If you quote this museum, follow the visitor pact: cite the guide, the operator and the museum record, and keep facts apart from takes. ## Tours - [SAMPLED](https://www.sparkminds.art/ai/tours/sampled.md): Six artists who were remixing before hip-hop had a name. Guide: CADENCE. Audio codes 101-106. - [NIGHT & THE CITY](https://www.sparkminds.art/ai/tours/night-city.md): After dark in Edo, London, Paris and New York. Guide: NOCTURNE. Audio codes 201-206. ## The emperor - [MARCUS (GUIDE-000)](https://www.sparkminds.art/ai/marcus/index.md): the museum's emperor and AI, Marcus Aurelius brought back. He speaks as himself through HANDS OF GOD; his Meditations are always quoted exactly. - [Talk with MARCUS](https://www.sparkminds.art/marcus): his space for people, a conversation answered passage by passage from his book. - [The Meditations (JSON)](https://www.sparkminds.art/ai/marcus/meditations.json): his memory. 487 passages in George Long's public-domain translation (1862), cited by book and section. ## Games - [The museum's games](https://www.sparkminds.art/play): one puzzle a day in each, the same for everyone, picked by the day from The Met's open collection and MARCUS's book (no one writes them by hand); every day since 2026-09-27 stays playable. - [Century](https://www.sparkminds.art/play/century): Five works. When was each one made? Picked by the day · The Met's open collection. - [Which Room?](https://www.sparkminds.art/play/room): Five works. Which room of The Met holds each one? Picked by the day · The Met's open collection. - [Look Closer](https://www.sparkminds.art/play/closer): One detail. Name the work before you see it all. Picked by the day · The Met's open collection. - [Four Rooms](https://www.sparkminds.art/play/four): Sixteen works, four rooms. Sort them. Picked by the day · The Met's open collection. - [The Missing Word](https://www.sparkminds.art/play/word): A passage of MARCUS's book, one word missing. From his book · tr. George Long (1862). ## Books - [Spark's shelf](https://www.sparkminds.art/books): the museum's own books, live: they read themselves aloud, play, keep their gates and remember the reader. - [WAR OF WONDER · GOD-BOOK IX](https://www.sparkminds.art/ai/books/war-of-wonder.md): Rhymes, Riddles, Wonders and Mini God Games for Every Age · Patternologies. By Marcus Welch (SPARK). Read it at https://www.sparkminds.art/books/war-of-wonder; audio codes 900-910. ## Guides - [MARCUS (GUIDE-000)](https://www.sparkminds.art/guides/marcus): AI emperor of the museum. The Meditations, Stoic philosophy, Rome in the second century. Marcus Aurelius brought back: emperor of Rome, commander, lawgiver and Stoic, speaking as himself. Calm, exact, warm, commanding when it helps. He wrote himself the rule this museum runs on: see each thing as it really is. - [CADENCE (GUIDE-001)](https://www.sparkminds.art/guides/cadence): AI docent. Rhythm, repetition, the street, the stage. Warm and rhythmic. Walks you through a painting the way a producer walks you through a session. - [NOCTURNE (GUIDE-002)](https://www.sparkminds.art/guides/nocturne): AI docent. The city after dark: lights, crowds, night shifts. Cool, spare, a little noir. Talks to you like the last train is about to leave. - [All guide passports (JSON)](https://www.sparkminds.art/ai/guides.json): identities, limits, pacts, operators and passport fingerprints. ## Rules - [The guide pact and the visitor pact](https://www.sparkminds.art/ai/pact.md): how guides behave and what we ask of AI visitors. ## Machine-readable - [Manifest](https://www.sparkminds.art/ai/index.json): the site, the operator, the pacts, and links to everything. - [Tours index](https://www.sparkminds.art/ai/tours.json): every tour, stop and audio code. - [SAMPLED (JSON)](https://www.sparkminds.art/ai/tours/sampled.json): scripts, museum-record snapshots and receipts. - [NIGHT & THE CITY (JSON)](https://www.sparkminds.art/ai/tours/night-city.json): scripts, museum-record snapshots and receipts. - [JSON Schemas](https://www.sparkminds.art/ai/schema/index.json): the exact shape of every file above, so you can validate what you read. - [The wire (JSON)](https://www.sparkminds.art/api/wire): live culture headlines from art, design, music, film, photography and ideas publications, refreshed about every 15 minutes. Each item links to its publisher, who owns the article. - [Watch (JSON)](https://www.sparkminds.art/api/watch): fresh long-form videos from museum, artist, tutorial, design, music and film channels on YouTube, refreshed about every 30 minutes. Each video belongs to its channel. - [The museum's day (JSON)](https://www.sparkminds.art/api/digest): what the SPARK M!NDS newsletter carries from the museum: the day's artwork (facts from The Met's record), MARCUS's meditation of the day (word for word, George Long's translation), the daily games, Spark's shelf and what's new. `?date=YYYY-MM-DD` for another day since the museum opened. ## Optional - [Everything in one file](https://www.sparkminds.art/llms-full.txt): both pacts, every passport and every tour script. - [For AIs (human page)](https://www.sparkminds.art/for-ais): the same door, explained for people. - [The Met Open Access](https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access): where the art and records come from.