Hollywood Sci-Fi Museum

The Hollywood Sci-Fi Museum
Established 2015 (2015)
Location Hollywood
Type Science Fiction Museum
Founder Huston Huddleston
Website Official website

The Hollywood Sci-Fi Museum, Hollywood Science Fiction Museum, Star Trek Enterprise Bridge Restoration, or the New Starship Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit[1] educational foundation created in August 2012 by Huston Huddleston.[2][3][4]

Commencing in 2016, the museum's exhibits will tour the world. Afterwards, in 2018, the museum will be permanently located in North Hollywood, California,[5][6] where it will be the world's first interactive educational science fiction museum covering science fiction films, television shows, art, and literature, while teaching filmmaking, educating the public about space exploration and real science through science fiction.

Mission

The mission of the Hollywood Science Fiction Museum is to inspire people of all ages with an uplifting vision of the future found in science fiction media, art, and literature by teaching real science through science fiction, including technology, ecology, engineering, computers, robotics, math, space travel, and all aspects of filmmaking through interactive exhibits and programs.[7] Guests will be allowed to interact with nearly everything—through touch, sitting on, or playing with objects. Exhibits will be narrated by the original TV and film cast and crew members, in addition to technical subject experts relating to the "real science."[8] Music and sound effects will be present in every room, while guests—and museum staff—are welcome to "cosplay" within the museum, dressed as characters from their favorite TV shows and films.[9][10]

Supporters

Board of Directors

The New Starship Foundation is the nonprofit organization behind the development of The Hollywood Sci-Fi Museum, and was founded to fund and oversee the restoration process of the Paramount-built Star Trek Enterprise-D display bridge.[11] New Starship was founded by Huston Huddleston and its board of directors includes many artists, producers and designers who have worked on modern science fiction films and television programs.[12]

The museum's board of directors, as of November 2014, include:[13]

Advisory Board

The museum's current board of advisers, as of 2015, include:

History

The project began in 2012 with the rescuing of the Paramount-built Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: The Original Series Enterprise Bridge sets created for touring in 1997, with the intention of restoring both and putting them on display. The nonprofit New Starship Foundation was formed with board members made up of the original writers, producers and designers of Star Trek, and a Kickstarter[16] and Indiegogo[17] was made raising $76,000 of the $250,000 needed to restore the Enterprise D Bridge set.[18]

Realizing that there was no museum in the world with the space, nor interest, to accommodate either of the bridge sets as a permanent exhibit. This resulted in the Foundation deciding to create their own. On May 6, 2014, The "New Starship Foundation" began its Kickstarter campaign to fund the proposed Hollywood Science Fiction Museum,[19][20] designating those monies collected to build a temporary museum that will be open in 2015, while a larger permanent facility scheduled to be open in 2018.[21] On June 15, 2014, the Foundation surpassed its $82,000 goal via crowdfunding.[22][23] At present, the temporary museum will house[24] the restored Enterprise bridge,[25] an original-series Star Trek bridge set, Star Wars props and costumes, Battlestar Galactica sets, a Doctor Who Tardis, the cockpit from Firefly, a Batmobile from the 1966 Batman television series, and a DeLorean from Back to the Future.[26]

The museum will later be permanently located, tentatively, in North Hollywood, California, at a location next to its sister museum, the Hollywood Horror Museum.[27][28]

Exhibits

The permanent museum, slated to open in 2018, will include:[29]

  • Hall Of Space Ships - Including ships from: Star Trek, Star Wars, War of the Worlds, Lost In Space, Babylon 5, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Farscape, Space 1999, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
  • Classic Science Fiction Cars - a museum wing, which will allow guests to sit inside, and take photos with, iconic cars[30] from science fiction's past, including: Back To The Future, Tron, Knight Rider, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Blade Runner, The Munsters, Transformers, Batman, and the motorcycle from Akira.[31]
  • Hall Of Robots - Including robots: Robby the Robot, B9, Gort, Iron Man, Terminator, Wall-E, Cylon Centurion, and Robocop.
  • Hall Of Real Robots - A rotating exhibit that will display real robots from companies around the world.
  • Hall Of Special Effects - A room devoted to the art of makeup and special effects from the best in film and television.
  • The Art Of Stop-Motion Animation - Exhibits of the work and art of Ray Harryhausen, Willis O'Brien, Irwin Allen, and George Pal.
  • Sci-Fi Movie Workshop - A workshop where guests can learn, and be a part of, every aspect of what it is like to act, write, do special effects, wardrobe, stunts, makeup and direct a sci-fi movie, with prerecorded tips from film industry professionals.
  • Film and Live Performance Theatre - A state-of-the art, 1,500-seat theater, used for live plays, seminars, and musical performances as well as IMAX 70mm, 35mm, and digital screenings of premieres and screenings of the greatest science fiction films of all time.
  • Learning Center - A museum wing, filled with touchscreen computers, large screens, and a database containing information, art, and video from every science-fiction film, television series, and book available.
  • Spaceship Restaurant - A completely-immersive dining experience that will bring special effects from many well-known sci-fi franchises.
  • Galaxy Gift Shop - A space-themed gift shop that will include merchandise from the films and TV shows presented within the museum, including books, toys, shirts, games, DVDs and Blu-Rays.
  • Physical Exhibits & Games - An area where guests will be able to add additional experiences to their visit, including: Astronaut Space Simulator, Holographic Laser Tag, and a Laser Maze.
  • Star Trek - Guests can step aboard Captain Kirk's Star Trek: The Original Series Bridge, the NX-01 Bridge from the original set of Enterprise, and an interactive Bridge of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Related links

References

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