{"id":8078,"date":"2014-06-10T12:59:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T16:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8078"},"modified":"2014-06-10T12:59:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T16:59:59","slug":"museum-of-science-fiction-planned-for-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8078","title":{"rendered":"Museum of Science Fiction planned for D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/museumofsciencefiction\" target=\"_d\">Museum of Science Fiction<\/a>\u00a0is a Washington, D.C. based project to<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>build a museum, an experience that does justice to the breadth and richness of science fiction history, where we preserve that history in perpetuity and inspire visitors to embrace the genre and its ideas. As a first step, we are developing a 3,000-square-foot preview museum where we can test exhibit concepts and new interactive technologies to share a real-time look into this grassroots effort. We have begun our site selection process. We expect to open the full-scale facility within 24 to 36 months.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here is a video about the museum<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ya_jJc1kp3g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Seattle&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.empmuseum.org\/\" target=\"_d\">EMP Museum &#8220;Music + Sci-fi + Pop Culture&#8221;<\/a>, founded by Paul Allen,\u00a0now\u00a0includes the former standalone\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/EMP_Museum#Science_Fiction_Museum\" target=\"_blank\">Science Fiction Museum<\/a>\u00a0and is referred to as the\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Science Fiction Hall of Fame&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Museum of Science Fiction\u00a0is a Washington, D.C. based project to build a museum, an experience that does justice to the breadth and richness of science fiction history, where we preserve that history in perpetuity and inspire visitors to embrace the genre and its ideas. As a first step, we are developing a 3,000-square-foot preview museum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8078\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Museum of Science Fiction planned for D.C.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,38,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-solar-sci-fi","category-space-arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-26i","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6542,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6542","url_meta":{"origin":8078,"position":0},"title":"Profile of rocketry pioneer Max Valier + Former defense chief writing asteroid-mining novel","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Michael Shinabery, \u00a0an education specialist and Humanities Scholar at\u00a0the\u00a0New Mexico Museum of Space History\u00a0in Alamogordo, New Mexico posts frequent articles on a range of space history topics. 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