The Hollywood SciFi Museum will make all your geek dreams come true

Fancy seeing Herbie the Love Bug, KITT from Knight Rider, the DeLorean time machine from Back to the Future and the lightcycle from Tron—all in one parking lot? Or how about the USS Enterprise-D beside the Millennium Falcon under one roof?

 

That may be quite a possibility as early as 2015, if a project to build the Hollywood Sci-Fi Science Fiction Museum gets off the ground.

 

 

For now, the project is seeking to raise $82,300 via crowdsourced-fund site Kickstarter.

 

But donors are being promised this early that they could get one ticket to the sci-fi museum.

 

Real-world science education

The museum is expected to be loads of fun, but it will also teach real-world concepts.
 

"This will be the first museum in the world to exclusively show the history of sci-fi films, TV, art and literature through props, sets and costumes, as well as show advancements in space travel and teach Real Science through Science Fiction," said the force behind the project - the New Starship Foundation, a nonprofit group behind the Enterprise-D Bridge Restoration project.

 

"It will be an interactive museum with fully immersive environments and touch screens that will incorporate old and new footage from actors, filmmakers and NASA astronauts and scientists, and will present both the fact and fiction of sci-fi. This will eventually teach Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) based education in a fun new way to all ages," it added.

 

Supporters of New Starship Foundation include Paramount, Gersh, Google, Bentley Systems and Entertainment Earth, - and even Star Trek actors and celebrities "who wanted to take a photo in our Enterprise-D Captain's Chair."

 

Creative design

 

Helping develop the museum is rhetroactive.com, the creative firm that helped design Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton.

 

It is also behind the Despicable Me and Simpson's Springfield attractions at Universal Studios, and The Grammy Museum.

 

Starships, robots, cars, and ... oh my!

 

As can be expected from sci-fi museums, this prospective museum will have displays for Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Firefly, Farscape, Stargate and Battlestar Galactica.

 

But there will be other halls as well:

 

 

Special effects

 

The museum will also have a room with prosthetics, masks, makeup and animatronic props.

 

It will feature as well the art of stop-motion animation with props and models by Ray Harryhausen, George Pal and Willis O'Brien.

 

Phases

 

The project will have four phases:

 

 

'Pretty brilliant'

 

A separate article on io9.com said such a science-fiction museum right in Hollywood could be "pretty brilliant."

 

"You would have access to all different kinds of artists (both retired and currently working). More access to props from television series and movies that are still looking for homes, and possible lectures from creators and writers. The possibilities are endless. This could be a really, really good idea. So let's help it get off the ground!" it said. — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News