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Michael Cieply: Where Movies Wither, Museums Suddenly Bloom
Santa Monica will soon have Sci-Fi World museum, joining three new entertainment-oriented exhibitions in and around the defunct Arclight theater.
A happy surprise on Friday—gleaned from a soggy copy of the Santa Monica Mirror left in the curbside box—was news that we almost have a spanking new science fiction museum in these parts. Started by a nonprofit called the New Starship Foundation–and with support both from fans and from the likes of William Shatner and George Takei–the museum promises to display movie and TV sci-fi memorabilia of all kinds. But you can bet it will be less didactic than the Academy Museum, with its declared intent “to contextualize and challenge dominant narratives around cinema.” And I suspect it will be almost as much fun as fiddling around on the Enterprise bridge in a cheerfully defunct seaside Sears.
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