Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts

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Author: hbyel

Date: 7/21/2026

Article Summary:

A spatial index maps museum artefacts as connecting arcs/hyperlinks from their origin site to institutional location/sources, currently indexing over 100k artifacts from all over the world.