Welcome to the Story Garden

By David Rose



A place to germinate, nurture, grow & share our stories.

=The Story Garden= The Story Garden is an online space at MOMA where stories are formed and shared. They can be in text form, and/or audio-visual multimedia.

=The Garden Story= The story of a Museum is a not just a story about a building and the artworks it contains, it is also a story about the artists and curators, a story about the people who thought of it in the first place, a story about the people who built it, but most importantly it is a story about the people who love to visit it.



The story of the Museum of Moving Art (MOMA) is a story of stories - stories shared by you and stories about people like you. Of all the stories of MOMA though, there is one particular story that is fundamental, and that is The Garden Story.

The Garden Story is the name given to the core narrative of the role playing game (RPG) dimension of the MOMA experience. It is a story that is forever growing and forever changing as people contribute to it whilst playing the MOMA Game(s). The term "Garden Story" is a beautiful metaphor, for it resonates with the idea of Paradise (not in the cultural appropriative sense of Pan Am travel posters but something more metaphysical, more mythological).

=The Story Tree= At the centre of The Garden Story stands a huge Story Tree with deep far-reaching roots into the past and expansive branches growing outwards and upwards into future heavens. Indeed, the Story Tree could be characterized as the evolving Myth at the heart of the MOMA world. It is the myth that is discovered by seekers playing the game(s), but because we are indeed playing a game it is a myth that they can also shape.

=Feature Story= If you would like your story featured here, click this link to message David Rose

=Tended Garden Beds: Other Stories= These are the stories currently being nurtured in the Story Garden:

Frost on the Swag

=Everyone's got a story= But, not everyone feels comfortable going public with theirs, some want to. Even objects have stories, or at least evoke them - how often have you picked something up and wondered who else has held it, or who made it and why? Stories may be anonymous or proudly named. This part of wikimoma.art is about nurturing crafted stories in their many forms, be they documentary or fantastic in nature. They may be shared in any digital medium utilizing text, spoken word, moving images, or series of stills (or indeed any combination of these approaches).

We encourage you to have a go at contributing a story. Please feel free to reach out on Discord or contact David Rose if you need any help or guidance.