We live in an age of simulacra, where versions of ourselves are created, multiplied, transformed, and shared, often without our knowledge or consent. Ideas of simulacra appear in the Grainger Museum’s collection with striking frequency. These range from multiple compositional iterations, to duplicates of letters and scores, to replications of the physical form in photographs and mannequins. This chapter describes the processes and outcomes of a Creative and Research Residency at the Grainger Museum, where we speculated about the role and impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Creative Arts and society. Archival material became living artefacts which were transformed and re-used in multiple ways with new media technologies to create a multi-faceted exhibition addressing contemporary concerns about technology in a form of ‘archival performativity’ (Sabiescu 2020). Using participatory arts practice, we created interactive experiences that allowed visitors to self-discover their own views on the ethics of data scraping, AI’s role in amplifying bias against underrepresented musical cultures, and the creation of socio-cultural echo chambers through an embodied experience of music-making, listening, and moving in physical space. The museum became a site for restaging the archive, allowing dynamic encounters between history and present, and of preservation and creation.