Sci-Fi Museum
Paul Allen's
Science Fiction
Museum opens in Seattle today.
From the New York Times:
The $20 million creation of Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, the museum is nestled inside another Allen museum, the Experience Music Project, in a twisted, multihued building designed by Frank Gehry. The space originally housed a hyperactive music ride called Artist's Journey, but that turned out to be too expensive to operate and was removed a year and a half ago.
I've been to the original EMP, and thought it was fabulous (it was known here for years, while in development, as Paul Allen's Hendrix Museum) but like most who visited this monstrosity, concluded early on that it'll never draw enough visitors, members, or money to survive in its current form. The "Experience Music Project" was an unbelievably expensive, ambitious failure. I hope the Sci-Fi Museum that's replacing it will fare better.
The Seattle Stranger covers this in more detail, in a series of articles this week.
The Experience Music Project is a flop on all fronts--financial, musical, and intellectual. No wonder they're turning a big chunk of it into a science-fiction museum. Is the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame a Hail-Mary pass or a shrewd left turn?
The NYT article is primarily a profile of the museum's director, Donna L. Shirley. Shirley used to run NASA's Mars exploration program...
When she joined NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1966, she was the only woman with an engineering degree, hired to work on a planned mission to Mars that was canceled a few years later after budget cuts. She worked on NASA projects on solar energy, the Mariner 10 mission to Venus and Mercury, an early version of a Saturn mission that evolved into the Cassini spacecraft [Page 1 of this section], the space station as proposed by President Ronald Reagan and proposals for human missions to Mars...
From the New York Times:
The $20 million creation of Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, the museum is nestled inside another Allen museum, the Experience Music Project, in a twisted, multihued building designed by Frank Gehry. The space originally housed a hyperactive music ride called Artist's Journey, but that turned out to be too expensive to operate and was removed a year and a half ago.
I've been to the original EMP, and thought it was fabulous (it was known here for years, while in development, as Paul Allen's Hendrix Museum) but like most who visited this monstrosity, concluded early on that it'll never draw enough visitors, members, or money to survive in its current form. The "Experience Music Project" was an unbelievably expensive, ambitious failure. I hope the Sci-Fi Museum that's replacing it will fare better.
The Seattle Stranger covers this in more detail, in a series of articles this week.
The Experience Music Project is a flop on all fronts--financial, musical, and intellectual. No wonder they're turning a big chunk of it into a science-fiction museum. Is the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame a Hail-Mary pass or a shrewd left turn?
The NYT article is primarily a profile of the museum's director, Donna L. Shirley. Shirley used to run NASA's Mars exploration program...
When she joined NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1966, she was the only woman with an engineering degree, hired to work on a planned mission to Mars that was canceled a few years later after budget cuts. She worked on NASA projects on solar energy, the Mariner 10 mission to Venus and Mercury, an early version of a Saturn mission that evolved into the Cassini spacecraft [Page 1 of this section], the space station as proposed by President Ronald Reagan and proposals for human missions to Mars...
Posted: Fri - June 18, 2004 at 10:08 AM
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