Liquid Crystal Souls (detail), Ernst Haeckel, 1917 Liquid Crystal Souls
Ernst Haeckel (German, 1834–1919)
Chromolithograph in Ernst Haeckel, Kristallseelen (Leipzig, 1917), frontispiece
Lent by a private collection, Los Angeles

You are viewing this tour on a liquid crystal screen. Since 1905, the German pharmaceutical company MERCK has been the principal producer and global distributor of liquid crystals used in LCD screens, which provide the canvas for our digital world.