The first museum on the Moon

The ultimate use case
for tokenized assets

There is art on the Moon, and you can own a piece of it, with the proof in your phone. Since March 2, 2025 there have been 47 artworks at Mare Crisium. Once one of them is yours, looking up is never quite the same again.

Chapter 1

Every full moon,
you will know

There is an asset on the Moon and it is yours, with the proof sitting in your phone. Every full moon, every eclipse, every clear night: you are one of the few people alive who can look up and say they own something up there.

Mare Crisium · permanent collection
Hi! We're your guides. On March 2, 2025 we landed the first museum on the Moon: 47 artworks at Mare Crisium, see the dot, top right.
And I could actually own one of those?
You can. You hold the proof in your phone, and the art stays where it is. That's what makes this the ultimate use case for tokenized assets: the thing you own is somewhere you can point at from your own garden.
Point at it… from here?
Every full moon. Every eclipse. You'll be one of the very few who can say they own an asset on the Moon. New words in here? Scroll on: five minutes and you'll own them all.

Our two little guides are avatars, not artworks. They are not part of the 47 and cannot be minted.

Chapter 2

What is a metaverse?

A shared digital world you can visit, meet people in, and own things in. Every metaverse so far lived only on servers. Ours is the first metaverse on the Moon, literally: the gallery that houses the 47 travelled up with them, so the museum stands at Mare Crisium and opens on your screen from Earth.

Servers
only
Every other metaverse
Ours · on the Moon, open on Earth
Here's the breakthrough: the metaverse gallery landed with them. One museum, two places: standing on the Moon forever, and open on your screen right now.
So the whole gallery is up there… and I can still visit it?
Exactly. What is on the Moon can be seen on Earth. See that dot? That's not a logo on a map: 47 artworks are physically there, on the lunar surface. Our metaverse mirrors a real place.
So "the first metaverse on the Moon"… that's not marketing?
It's coordinates. Our digital world mirrors a real collection at a real place no one can reach, alter or burn down. That's what makes everything you're about to learn matter.
▸ The MoonMars film
Chapter 3

NFTs & tokenized assets

Not a JPEG. A deed of ownership, recorded on the blockchain, held only by you. (Curious how that works? See the Blockchain tab.)

Deed of ownershipArtwork #12 · recorded on chain, forever
When you buy a house you don't carry the house around: you hold the deed. An NFT is a deed for something digital. "Tokenized assets" just means: real things with a deed like that. Art, tickets, music rights, buildings.
But a deed is only as good as the thing it points to… where do you keep the thing?
Remember chapter 1: ours is on the Moon. Permanent deed, permanent vault. The weakest link is gone. And there are two ways to be part of it.
Chapter 4

Two ways to own it

Start small and join the mission, or collect a piece of history itself.

The collectible

Mint a thumbnail

A black & white collectible of one of the 47 Mare Crisium artworks. Affordable, and every mint flies the little astronaut 2 miles closer to the Moon.

  • Low-cost mint on Base
  • Every mint = 2 miles for the mission
  • Fill the 47-card and redeem the golden token
Open edition · join the mission Mint a thumbnail
The original

Collect the artwork

Each of the 47 artworks on the Moon has exactly one original NFT: the deed to the actual piece in the lunar collection. Once they're gone, they're gone.

  • 1 of 1: only 47 exist in the world
  • The deed to art physically on the Moon
  • Provenance recorded on chain, forever
1/1 per artwork · 47 total View the originals
Learn

The tech,
explained simply

Everything a first-timer needs, in the order you'll meet it. Six short chapters, no jargon, nothing assumed.

Chapter 1

What is a blockchain?

A notebook that everyone can read, nobody can secretly edit, and that never forgets.

BLOCK 1who owns what
BLOCK 2who owns what
BLOCK 3who owns what
YOUyour mint
Like a guest book written in permanent ink?
Exactly. Every page is sealed to the one before it: that's the "chain". Change an old page and everyone sees the broken seal. A record everyone can trust, owned by no one.
Chapter 2

What is a wallet?

Your own key to that notebook. Not an account someone gives you: a key only you hold.

Your wallet
0x84f2…9b31
🔑 Only you hold the key
Do I need to be technical? Or pay to make one?
Neither. A wallet is a free app: two minutes to set up. No email, no password, no company holding your stuff. Here, connecting is one click and one confirmation in your wallet: nothing signed, nothing spent. That's the whole thing.
Chapter 3

What does it cost?

Two amounts, and one of them isn't ours. Here is the whole bill before you agree to anything.

The mintThe price of the thumbnailto MoonMars
Network feeUsually cents on Baseto the network
Paid once, when you approvethat's it
Why is there a second fee? I only wanted one thing.
Because writing in that notebook is work, and the people doing it get paid for it. That's the network fee: "gas", if you meet the word elsewhere. It goes to the network, never to us, and on Base it is usually a matter of cents.
And what's ETH? Do I have to buy something first?
ETH is the currency this network runs on, the way euros run a shop. You need a little in your wallet before you mint: your wallet app can sell you some, and you'll need far less than people expect. Your wallet always shows you the total and asks first. Nothing moves until you say yes.

Prices move, and so do network fees. We can't quote you a number here that would still be true tomorrow: the mint screen shows the real one, from the contract, before you approve anything.

Chapter 4

What does minting do?

You're not picking something off a shelf. You're the reason it exists.

YOU PRESSmint
THE CHAINwrites a new line
IT'S YOURSin your wallet
Buying is taking something that already exists off someone else's hands. Minting is the moment it first exists, and the notebook records that it was you.
So there's no undo button.
There isn't, and we'd rather say so now than in the small print. A line in that notebook is permanent, so there's nothing to refund and no one who could. That's the same permanence that makes it worth having: it cuts both ways. Read the wallet screen before you approve it.
And what am I actually getting?
A black & white thumbnail of one of the 47 artworks on the Moon: the collectible, not the original artwork itself. And two miles of the astronaut's journey, which is the part we like best.
Chapter 5

Can I sell it later?

Yes, and not through us. Once it's yours it is genuinely yours, including the leaving.

YOUR WALLETtoday
SOMEONE ELSEone day
the chain writes the handover down
Do I have to come back here to sell it?
No. It sits in your wallet, not in an account on our site, so any marketplace that speaks to Base can list it. We aren't in the middle of that: we couldn't stop it if we wanted to, and that is rather the point.
Will it be worth more?
We have no idea, and anyone who tells you otherwise is guessing at best. This isn't an investment and we don't sell it as one. Mint it because you want the thing. If it travels on afterwards, good: that's what a deed is for.
Chapter 6

Keeping it safe

One page you should read twice. A key only you hold is also a key only you can lose.

Your recovery phrase
··············· ··············· ··············· ···············
🔒 Nobody's business but yours
When you set up a wallet it gives you a list of words: a recovery phrase. That list is the wallet. Anyone holding it holds everything in there, on any device, forever.
So where do I keep it?
On paper, somewhere you'd keep a passport. Not in a photo, not in a notes app, not in an email to yourself. And there's no "forgot password" here: lose the words and nobody on Earth can let you back in. Not us, not the wallet company.
How do I know a message is really from you?
Start from the rule that it isn't. Nobody from MoonMars will ever ask for your recovery phrase, not support, not a giveaway, not someone friendly in a chat. There is no reason we would need it, so anyone asking is not us.
Two more habits and you're safer than most: reach this site by typing moonmars.io rather than following a link someone sent you, and actually read what your wallet asks before you approve it. A signature we ask for is free and moves nothing, if a screen wants money and you didn't ask to spend any, stop there.

That's all you need

A record everyone can trust, a key only you hold, and no surprises about what it costs. Ready?

Mint your thumbnail
Together

Fly the little astronaut
to the Moon

Every thumbnail minted carries our astronaut 2 miles closer. Land, and the story becomes legend.

The mission

Your mint moves
the mission

Together we're flying the little astronaut to the Moon. Every thumbnail minted carries them 2 miles further.

Little astronaut
Counting the miles…

Every mint moves us 2 miles closer. We travel this distance together.

Own a piece
of the Moon story

A thumbnail that moves the mission, or one of the 47 originals. Either way: a permanent deed, connected to the first art collection on the Moon.

Mint a thumbnail Collect an original
One confirmation in your wallet to connect. No account needed.
Your card

Own a piece
of the Moon

Since 2 March 2025 the MoonMars Museum holds 47 artworks at Mare Crisium, on the lunar surface. Collect a black and white thumbnail of one of them and join collectors from all over the world.

Miles travelled Counting the miles…
Earth · 0Moon · 238,855 mi

2 miles per collect. Every thumbnail carries the little astronaut further. We travel this distance together.

Your card

Forty seven,
in the shape of us

An empty card is a photograph of deep space, cut into 49 pieces. Every thumbnail you collect turns one piece of sky into art. The grid draws an X and a Y chromosome: the collection is DNA, 47 chromosomes instead of 46, because an artist with Down syndrome is part of it.

Your card Connect your wallet to see your card

The moon mark and the two guides are always there. The guides are avatars, not artworks: they are not part of the 47 and cannot be minted.

Collect

Three ways
to fill your card

Which of the 47 you receive is assigned at random on chain at the moment you collect. Every thumbnail inside an option costs the same fixed price. No thumbnail carries a prize or a payout.

Before your first mint · follow MoonMars

WalletNot connected
NetworkBase

Which of the 47 you receive is assigned at random on chain at the moment you collect.

Quantity 1
Price eachLoading…
Total…
Miles added2 miles

Pick a quarter of the card and your thumbnail is assigned at random from the artworks inside it: fourteen or fifteen instead of forty seven. A quarter costs double per thumbnail.

Price each…
Total…
Miles added2 miles

One transaction mints every artwork you are still missing, and tops the batch up to 282 thumbnails in total. Your card is complete when it confirms, and the duplicates are yours to keep, trade or give away.

Still missing…
Total…
Miles added564 miles

Good to know

What you are collecting

MoonMars thumbnails are collectibles on the Base network: a memento of the mission and of your membership of the MoonMars community. They are not the original artworks, and they are not an investment or a financial product. We make no promises about value. Every thumbnail inside an option costs the same fixed price, and no thumbnail carries a prize or a payout.

Payment, delivery, withdrawal

You pay the collect price plus a small network fee (gas) to the Base network. Blockchain transactions are final and cannot be refunded or reversed. Because your thumbnail is delivered immediately, you give up the 14 day right of withdrawal. That is what you confirm with the checkbox before you collect. One confirmation in your wallet to connect: nothing is signed or paid until you press a collect button.

Privacy

We store nothing about you: no account, no e mail, no analytics. We read only your public wallet address from the network. The artwork and its data live on IPFS, independent of this website.

The contract

Everything runs directly on our own smart contract on Base, verified on BaseScan. Questions: hello@moonmars.com. Copyright stays with the artists.

The collection

47 artworks,
one address: the Moon

The Mare Crisium collection, physically on the lunar surface since March 2, 2025, in full colour. 47 works, like 47 chromosomes: humanity's 46 plus one extra, because an artist with Down syndrome is part of the collection. Each original is 1 of 1.

The originals

All 47 on OpenSea ↗

Every artwork opens its listing on OpenSea, where the originals are bought and sold. They live on Ethereum: a different chain from the thumbnails you mint here on Base.

Why owning one of the 47 is different

These are not editions. Each original is the single deed, 1 of 1, to an artwork that is physically on the Moon, part of the first art collection in history to leave Earth for good. Among them: the first drawing of DNA by Francis & Odile Crick, work by Paul van Hoeydonck, the only artist on the Moon since 1971, and a CryptoPunk pair. Forty-seven exist. There will never be a forty-eighth.

That is why the originals start at 10 ETH each. Not as a promise of value, but as a statement of what they are: museum pieces of the digital renaissance, with their provenance recorded on chain forever.

Our hope: one guardian for all 47. The collection is DNA, 47 chromosomes that belong together as a single body of work. We are looking for the collector who keeps them united, on Earth as they are on the Moon.

Serious about all 47? Get in touch See the collection on OpenSea ↗
Wallet

Your wallet

Connect a wallet to see what you already own. No account needed, nothing to pay, and we store nothing about you: we only read what this address holds.

Link it to your MoonMars account

Your MoonMars profile, your name, photo and settings live on moonmars.com, on one page that all our sites share. Opening it takes you to that site. Your wallet stays connected here, and nothing about it is sent along.

Open my profile on moonmars.com

What is a wallet for? Only for collecting the artwork. You need one to mint, and for nothing else on MoonMars. If you are just looking around, you can skip it.

We store nothing about you: no account, no email, no analytics. Your wallet address is only ever read from the network you are already talking to.