fcc.cc · Field Bulletin · 36 Permanent Exhibits Edition 2026-05-15 · Vol. MMXXVI

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A publication of record for the technologies that quietly run our lives. Thirty-six interactive exhibits across signals, senses, materials, and measurement — each a field-instrumented case study in the science, history, and art behind what we use every day.
Exhibits
36 permanent
Artifacts catalogued
1,247
Last redesigned
May ’26
Learning paths
8 live
In production
4 this quarter
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Companion · Curated Journeys

Learning Paths

Thread exhibits into guided journeys. Take quizzes between stops. Earn badges as you complete a path. Eight paths live; more in production.

Paths8 live · 4 in production
Quizzes142 total
Explore paths →
Catalog · 01

The Permanent Collection

36 on view · click any card to enter
№ 01
Materials

The Color Museum

How humans named, measured, and fought over color.

48 colors · 15 milestones · 3 tools
№ 02
KHOOR ZRUOG HELLO WORLD
Signals

The Cipher Museum

The invisible war behind every message.

28 ciphers · 16 milestones · Enigma simulator
№ 03
Materials

The Pixel Museum

From 1-bit to billions — how screens learned to see.

31 displays · 17 milestones · Pixel art editor
№ 04
Materials

The Recording Museum

How humanity learned to freeze sound and data.

37 media · 23 milestones · 4 animated diagrams
№ 05
Signals

The Radio Spectrum

The invisible ocean of electromagnetic waves all around you.

16 spectrum bands · Wave modulation demo
№ 06
Materials

Internet Text Culture

From the first smiley to Zalgo.

45+ artifacts · Zalgo generator · Unicode explorer
№ 07
Measurement

The Maps Museum

How humanity learned to flatten a sphere.

32 maps · 5 projections · Great circle calculator
№ 08
Materials

The Type Museum

The art and engineering of every letter you read.

35 typefaces · 15 milestones · Type tester
№ 09
Senses

The Sound Museum

The physics of everything you hear.

33 artifacts · Web Audio waveform lab · Harmonics visualizer
№ 10
Measurement

Time Dilation

Einstein said time is relative. GPS proves it daily.

32 artifacts · 17 milestones · Twin paradox simulator
№ 11
Measurement

The Telescope Museum

Four centuries of reaching for the stars.

35 telescopes · 18 milestones · Aperture calculator
№ 12
Materials

The Video Museum

How we learned to capture moving pictures.

37 formats · 28 milestones · Frame rate demo
№ 13
Signals

The Oscilloscope Museum

The instrument that made electricity visible.

33 instruments · Virtual scope · Lissajous figures
№ 14
Signals

The Morse Code Museum

Dots, dashes, and the birth of instant long-distance communication.

35 artifacts · Interactive key · Semaphore encoder
№ 15
Senses

The Hearing Museum

How your ears turn vibrations into the world you hear.

36 artifacts · Equal loudness curves · Hearing range test
№ 16
Measurement

The Compass Museum

From lodestones to laser gyros — how we learned to find north.

32 instruments · Declination map · Navigation simulator
№ 17
Signals

The Electricity Museum

From static sparks to the power grid — how we tamed the fundamental force.

32 artifacts · Circuit playground · Field visualizer
№ 18
Measurement

The Clocks Museum

From sundials to atomic clocks — 5,500 years of measuring time.

40 artifacts · Pendulum mechanism · Escapement visualizer
№ 19
Measurement

Numbering Systems

From tally marks to Unicode — how humanity learned to count.

38 artifacts · Interactive abacus · Base converter
№ 20
Signals

The Magnetism Museum

From lodestones to MRI machines — invisible forces that shape our world.

30+ artifacts · Field visualizer · Electromagnet builder
№ 21
Senses

Light & Optics

From candles to lasers — how light bends, bounces, and reveals the invisible.

30+ artifacts · Ray tracer · Snell’s Law calculator
№ 22
Signals

The Fiber Optics Museum

From glass threads to undersea cables — how light carries the internet.

28+ artifacts · TIR simulator · Bandwidth calculator
№ 23
Senses

The Microphone Museum

From carbon granules to MEMS chips — how we learned to capture sound.

30+ mics · Polar patterns · Frequency response viewer
№ 24
Senses

Optical Illusions

Your brain lies to you — beautifully. Explore why perception isn’t reality.

30+ illusions · Interactive demos · Afterimage generator
№ 25
Measurement

Pressure & Barometers

The invisible weight of air — from Torricelli’s tube to weather forecasting.

28+ artifacts · Atmosphere visualizer · Unit converter
№ 26
Signals

The Antennas Museum

From Hertz’s spark gap to 5G phased arrays — how we launch radio waves into space.

35 antennas · Radiation pattern lab · Link budget calculator
№ 27
Signals

The Modulation Museum

From AM to 1024-QAM — how we squeeze information onto radio carriers.

36 schemes · Signal lab · Constellation viewer · Shannon calculator
№ 28
Signals

The Radar Museum

From Hülsmeyer’s 1904 Telemobiloskop to 4D imaging radar in cars — seeing through the dark.

37 systems · PPI scope simulator · Doppler · Radar equation
№ 29
Measurement

Units & Measures

From the cubit to the Planck constant — how humans learned to agree on length, mass, time, and temperature.

43 units · Cosmic scale ruler · Universal unit converter · SI base guide
№ 30
Materials

The Printing Press

From woodblock to 3D — 1,800 years of putting ink on paper.

36 artifacts · Halftone simulator · CMYK mixer · Typographic units
№ 31
Senses

The Vision Museum

How your eye turns light into sight — from Alcmaeon’s dissection to the bionic retina.

42 artifacts · Interactive eye cross-section · Color vision sim · Blind spot demo
№ 32
Senses

The Touch Museum

How your skin becomes a sense organ — from Meissner corpuscles to the Taptic Engine.

40 artifacts · Interactive homunculus · Braille translator · TRP receptor demo
№ 33
Materials

The DNA & Genetics Museum

The four-letter code that builds every living thing — from Mendel’s peas to CRISPR.

43 artifacts · Animated double helix · Codon translator · 12 genetic diseases
№ 34
Measurement

The Plate Tectonics Museum

The 60-year revolution that explained continents, oceans, mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes with one idea.

37 artifacts · 4-mode boundary lab · Drift calculator · Famous events
№ 35
Signals

The Signal Flags Museum

From Chappe’s optical telegraph to the International Code of Signals — how humans sent messages without wires.

38 artifacts · Live ICS hoist · Semaphore figure · Distress reference
№ 36
Measurement

The Earthquake Museum

Tectonic forces, seismic waves, and the science of predicting the unpredictable.

34 artifacts · Live quake map · Richter scale visualizer
Colophon · 02

About this edition

All 36 museum sites in this catalog share a unified Field Bulletin design system — Source Serif 4 headlines, JetBrains Mono tabular data, hard-plate sections, a 56px editorial-red whisker on every heading, and one signature accent per site.

Distinct identities, single publication. The catalog index is rendered in the publication’s own editorial red; each exhibit page below carries its own accent — see the swatch grid for the full palette.

Per-exhibit accent palette · 36 colors