Tag: Museums
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You can weigh in on spaced-out designs for Smithsonian’s Bezos Learning Center
Firm C’s concept for the Bezos Learning Center is meant to evoke a spaceship. (Image via NASM) The design selection process for the Bezos Learning Center planned at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum may sound a bit like “America’s Got Talent” for architects — but the $130 million prize is well beyond…
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Mockups of NASA’s newest Mars rover and helicopter will kick off a road trip in Seattle
Virginia student Alex Mather shows off a mockup of the Perseverance rover at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in July 2020, while Alabama high-school student Vaneeza Rupani points to an Ingenuity helicopter mockup. The students won trips to the Perseverance launch as a reward for naming the two spacecraft. (Photo by Ken Kremer / SpaceUpClose.com) Seattle’s…
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Preserving the future: A rare glimpse inside the EMP Museum vault
Storage shelves inside the EMP Museum vault I have seen the future. And it looks a bit ratty. “Futuristic Shades” from Waterworld That was my not-so-charitable reaction when I got up-close with eyewear from the 1995, post-apocalyptic Kevin Costner film Waterworld in EMP Museum’s collection. Though merely two decades old (from a film then said…