Lunar Codex: digitised works of 30,000 artists to be archived on moon

Collection to include images, objects, magazines, books, podcasts, movies and music from 157 countries

A portrait assembled from Lego bricks, woodcuts printed in Ukrainian soil and a collection of poetry from every continent are among thousands of works to be archived on the moon as a lasting record of human creativity.

The collection, known as the Lunar Codex, is being digitised and stored on memory cards or laser-etched on NanoFiche - a 21st-century update on film-based microfiche - in preparation for the missions that will ferry the material to the lunar surface.