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Close up photograph of a library bookshelf, with blurry books in the background, and two books laying on their sides in the right foreground. The titles "Maps" and "Maps and Mapmakers" are visible on the spines of the books.

THE ARCHIVE OF MISSING THINGS

A 90-minute online game. A maze. A secret.

Use clues in the Library to find the Heart of the Archive.

The Archive of Missing Things is open.

The Archive is best experienced in a quiet place with a good internet connection. It requires a desktop or laptop, in full screen mode.

You will have 90 minutes to find the heart. The heart is there to be found.

Wallpaper made of a pastiche of images (bicycles, portraits, eyeglasses, phones, pencil drawsings, etc). An open doorway in the middle of the image with the words "The Archive of Missing Things" in white on a black background. The website "archivemainframe.computer" across the bottom of the image, as well as logos for the City of Halifax, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia and the Canada Council for the Arts.
A grey background. The landing page for The Archive of Missing Things. Four white text boxes, slightly askew, underneath the title. Box 1 reads: A 90-minute online game. A maze. A secret. Use clues in the Library to find the Heart of the Archive. REGISTER or LOGIN. Box 2: The Archive is best experienced in a quiet place with a good internet connection. It requires a desktop or laptop, in full screen mode. Box 3: Interest in the Archive is entirely generated through word of mouth. If you enjoy your visit, please let others know in person and on social media. Box 3: Interest in the Archive is entirely generated through word of mouth. If you enjoy your visit, please let others know in person and on social media.Box 4: The Archive of Missing Things was created in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia), in Mi’kma’ki, the territory of the Mi’kmaq people. We are Treaty people, working here in recognition of the Peace and Friendship Treaties that establish the Mi’kmaw as the traditional occupants of these unceded lands.