A Tiny Art Museum on the Moon? PBS Series Investigates

Did NASA quietly create the first moon museum more than 40 years ago? A tiny ceramic chip embedded with original sketches by artists including Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and Robert Rauschenberg (at right) may have been a pop art stowaway on the Apollo 12 lunar module launched in November 1969. The PBS series History Detectives takes on the case of the moon museum in its season eight premiere, which airs June 21. Host Gwen Wright, a professor of architecture at Columbia University, begins by going right to the source: Forrest

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