Natural history,
for machines.
For as long as we've had museums, we've preserved the things we were afraid to forget. Birds pinned beneath glass, skeletons wired upright, specimens labeled in careful handwriting. Not to keep them alive, but to keep looking at them.
Biology will always be studied. But something new has started to pile up alongside it: the machines that shaped how we grew up. Phones that held entire chapters of a life. Handhelds played under the covers. Music players that went everywhere with us. They don't decay. They just go quiet, and then they go into a drawer.
Techsidermy is a practice of preserving them properly. Each device is taken apart by hand, every component catalogued, then mounted at true 1:1 scale above a plate drawn like a circuit board, numbered and behind glass. It's half natural history museum and half gallery: rigorous enough to learn from and composed enough to live with.
Every specimen gets a number, a record and, when it comes from a client, a single line in their own words. The number is permanent. The Archive keeps growing.
Three disciplines.
Down to the last screw
Disassembled by hand with the right tools, in order, without forcing. Nothing is discarded; even the screws are kept and counted.
Every part, recorded
Each component is measured, numbered and named on a plate drawn for that specific device at true 1:1 scale, with traces tucked beneath every part.
Behind glass, for good
Mounted on clear standoffs in a white wood shadowbox under UV-filtering acrylic. Batteries are discharged and sealed. Made to outlast the device's first life.
On view.
A museum for the machines we left behind
We're developing a permanent exhibition of the Archive: specimens shown the way natural history collections are, in series, with their records.
Request a viewingShowing or acquiring a series
Galleries, hotels, offices and collectors can show or acquire a curated series, or commission a set around a theme: a decade, a brand, a single object across generations.
Exhibition inquiriesCollected
in series.
Beyond commissions, the lab releases specimens in small numbered series: home consoles, special-edition handhelds, portable audio built for the outdoors. Each series is a chapter of the Archive.