<![CDATA[io9: Science Fiction Museum]]> http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: Science Fiction Museum]]> http://io9.com/tag/science fiction museum http://io9.com/tag/science fiction museum <![CDATA[Use your knowledge of SF novels to help the EMP museum create an exhibit]]> EMP, a pop culture museum in Seattle, is creating a new exhibition called Icons of Science Fiction, and we need your help. The exhibit is organized around six big themes in science fiction, and explores how these themes play out in books, films, TV shows, comics, games, and art. We'll display props, costumes, artwork and more. The exhibit will also present great written works that explore these themes - and that's where you come in. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5878922&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Watch a famous Frank Gehry building get sliced open for Battlestar Galactica ships]]> At Seattle's Sci Fi Museum, a Battlestar Galactica exhibit opens this weekend - including life-sized ship props. In this video, curators explain how they cut a new hole in the museum walls to squeeze the ships into the gallery. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5670020&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Science Fiction Dream Job]]> The coolest job in the world for scifi archival geeks just opened up at Paul Allen's Science Fiction Museum, which is nestled at one shiny, gooey edge of Seattle's Music Experience Project. I was at the museum a couple of years ago, and it's seriously awesome: full of everything from rare pulp books, to collections of props and scifi art. BoingBoing reports that the job opening is for a "manager of interpretation," which I think might mean "talk about science fiction all day." [BoingBoing] More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023686&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Tomorrowland Sucks]]> Disneyland promises visitors through its gates four separate worlds that are supposed to thrill and delight you: Fantasyland, Adventureland, Frontierland, and Tomorrowland. While the other lands deliver on that promise, Tomorrowland seems like it got stuck in Yesterdayland. Once a portal to the future, the amusement park has now been surpassed in coolness by several new museums. What went wrong? More »
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