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SF Museum Open Soon
13/04/2004 . Source: Jessica Martin 
Late June date set for the new SF museum at the Seattle Center. Yawn. The U.S. Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (SFM), has - yes - finally announced it will open its doors to the public on June 18th, 2004.
The museum - with an advisory board that includes science fiction authors, filmmakers and designers such as Greg Bear, Octavia Butler, James Cameron, Arthur C. Clarke, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg among others - will explore how science fiction reflects and comments on the human condition, promotes critical thinking about culture and society, and invites us to ponder the universe's infinite possibilities. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit institution, SFM is co-located with Experience Music Project at Seattle Center, and was of course founded by ex-Microsoft founder moneybags Paul Allen.
The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame will involve various 'name' writers, illustrators, publishers, and filmmakers. These artists will be honored in a Hall of Fame, which will be showcased within the museum and aims to serve as a locus for national annual awards, special events, and publications.
Exhibits include:
- Science Fiction Timeline - a collage of ideas, historical milestones and key personalities set against a changing background of historical and cultural context.
- Not So Weird Science - the implications of new technology as explored in science fiction and new scientific advances
- Spacedock - collection of spaceships from the annals of science fiction movies, television, books and games gathered together in an orbital spacedock. Linked to a visitor-activated database, you'll view stats on the crews, missions, and engineering of ships from SF, including Star Trek's Enterprise, Alien's Nostromo, and Silent Running's Valley Forge.
- The Tools and Technology of SF - verse yourself in the technology and hardware from SF - blasters, transporters, phasers, tricorders, and other tools.
- Alternate Modes of Travel - Science fiction staples such as wormholes, teleportation, space, time and dimensional travel, and travel within our own minds.
- Amazing Places - worlds and alien environments as envisioned in science fiction art and literature.
- Cities of Tomorrow - computer-generated vistas of famous SF cityscapes of past and present futures - The Matrix, Blade Runner, and The Jetsons - and the stories of those who call them home.
- Big Brother - weigh the perceived need for security against the cost to personal freedom, and see how governments, and the values they embrace, can result in utopias or dystopias for their people.
- The Intergalactic Lounge - a gathering place of the most famous and infamous extraterrestrials. Your fellow travelers in the Interplanetary Lounge may look frighteningly foreign, but if you take the time to listen to their stories, you might discover the deep similarities between you.
- Metal or Mortal - a lineup of robots, androids and assorted artificial beings, all of whom have a story to tell and are programmed to tell it through dialog with visitors.
- Make Contact - Through interactive computer stations, you can tap into resources that connect you to science fiction events, discussion groups, games, programs, guest appearances, movie premiers, author readings, and other related happenings ... around the block, or around the world. Hmmm. Is this just a glorified internet cafe?
Check them out at www.sfhomeworld.org.
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