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 educational foundation created in August 2012 by Huston Huddleston.
Commencing in 2016, the museum's exhibits will tour the world. Afterwards, in 2018, the museum will be permanently located in North Hollywood, California, 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.
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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. 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." 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.
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. 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.
The museum's board of directors, as of November 2014, include:
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, with campaigns on Kickstarter and Indiegogo raising $76,000 of the $250,000 needed to restore the Enterprise D Bridge set.
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, 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. On June 15, 2014, the Foundation surpassed its $82,000 goal via crowdfunding. At present, the temporary museum will house the restored Enterprise bridge, 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.
The museum will later be permanently located, tentatively, in North Hollywood, California, at a location next to its sister museum, the Hollywood Horror Museum.
Related links
- The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle, Washington
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