Star Wars : Where Science Meets Imagination is a traveling exhibit created by the Science Museum, Boston, featuring props and costumes used in Star Wars film, but focuses primarily on the science behind the science-fiction epic George Lucas. Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination was developed by Boston's Museum of Science, in collaboration with Lucasfilm Ltd., with the support of the National Science Foundation, under Grant No. 1. 0307875. This exhibition is presented nationally by Bose Corporation.
The show premiered in Boston in 2005, and attracted nearly 3 million visitors across the United States and Australia and before making its final appearance in San Jose, California. A companion book was released in 2005.
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History
The exhibition was developed over a four-year period, beginning in 2002. The exhibition was opened to the public at the Museum of Science on October 27, 2005. George Lucas was the guest of honor at the Museum Grand Gala Opening Museum; Anthony Daniels is the host.
The exhibition left Boston on April 30, 2006, to kick off its 20th international tour.
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Features
The main focus of the exhibition is the introduction of modern science and technology through the lens of Star Wars. Topics ranging from space travel, mechanical prosthetics, robotics, and levitation technologies as seen in hovercrafts and Maglev trains are handled through direct activities and voluntary demonstrations.
Interactive view
The exhibits include the reproduction of the Millennium Falcon cockpit, which features a four and a half minute experience of world space exploration, particularly unmanned exploration of planets farther from our sun. systems, and hundreds of exoplanets that have been discovered. This experience is narrated by Anthony Daniels, who plays C-3PO, and with some extra effects in the cockpit (rumbling chair, fan, and lights) is meant to simulate the appearance of actually traveling through space and looking out from the cockpit views screen. This exhibition is not included in the version at Powerhouse Museum.
The "Living on Tatooine" section of this exhibition features three additional reality kiosks where visitors interact with virtual environments on a large screen. The environment includes reflection of visitor shadows and computer-generated elements from the Star Wars universe embedded in the properties in the video. Visitors move physical properties to complete complexity-building tasks to build communities in three simulated environments. This kiosk was developed by ARToolworks, Inc. When users interact with props, users and props appear on the video but once placed, the video takes over the entire screen, the visuals disappear and the interaction between the computer-generated elements is modified by their relative position.
Also included in the initial 14 places from 20 places this tour is the Robot Object Theater. This interactive presentation on robotics narrated by C-3PO shows some special-purpose robots mocked (pipe inspection and welding) and compares it with Star Wars robots, soccer robots and Kismet (robots). This provides an interesting insight into some current thinking on how to improve the usefulness of robotics and the nature of the interaction between robots and humans.
Tools and costumes
The exhibition includes a large number of props, costumes and models, including Yoda dolls, C-3PO, "Naked" C-3PO, R2-D2, Darth Vader helmets three parts of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith , as well as X-wing models, Millennium Falcon and more used in movies. There are also costumes for Mace Windu, Princess Leia, Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and stormtroopers, and lightsabers belonging to Luke, Obi-Wan, Darth Maul, and Count Dooku, among many costumes, props, and other models. On January 16th, Boba Fett's costume was added to replace the Chewbacca costume.
Other features
There is also a multimedia tour that uses a PDA to provide not only audio content, but also video and still images, adding to the visitor experience. The PDA has a "bookmark" feature, which allows visitors to send emails to special features of the exhibit to their email address. The exhibition also includes a number of documentary videos on Star Wars technology and the comparison of real-world technology with the world of Star Wars .
Messages
A companion book of the same name, produced by Lucasfilms, and edited by the Boston Museum of Science published by National Geographic in October 2005. Introduction to this book by Anthony Daniels who plays the famous C-3PO character in the Star Wars story. This book deals primarily with the same themes and concepts covered by the traveling exhibition. The second edition of this book was released in September 2006.
Tour schedule
- Science Museum, Boston, Massachusetts - October 19, 2005 - April 30, 2006
- COSI Columbus, Columbus, Ohio - June 3, 2006 - September 4, 2006
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, Oregon - October 11, 2006 - January 1, 2007
- California Science Center, Los Angeles, California - February 11, 2007 - April 29, 2007
- Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Fort Worth, Texas - June 9, 2007 - September 3, 2007
- Museum of Science and Industry (MSI), Chicago, Illinois - October 5, 2007 - January 6, 2008
- Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - February 2008 to May 4, 2008
- Minnesota Science Museum, Saint Paul, Minnesota - June 13, 2008 - August 24, 2008
- Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia, - December 4, 2008 - April 26, 2009
- Scienceworks, Melbourne, Australia, - June 4, 2009 - November 3, 2009
- Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska February 9, 2010 - April 25, 2010
- US. Space & amp; Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama - June 25, 2010 - September 6, 2010
- Lafayette Science Museum, Lafayette, Louisiana - October 21, 2010 - January 17, 2011
- Pacific Science Center, Seattle, Washington - March 19, 2011 - May 9, 2011
- The Health Museum, Houston, Texas - 18 June 2011 - 18 September 2011
- Science Discovery Center, Santa Ana, California - November 18, 2011 - April 15, 2012
- Exploration Venue, Wichita, Kansas - May 26 - September 3, 2012
- Orlando Science Center, Orlando, Florida - October 13, 2012 - April 7, 2013
- Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana - May 25 - September 2, 2013
- Innovation Technology Museum, San Jose, California - October 19, 2013 - March 23, 2014.
The last place of the tour was announced in Spring 2013.
See also
- Star Wars Science (miniseries)
References
External links
- Star Wars : Where Science Meets Imagination on the official news website Star Wars .
- Official Exhibition Site: Powerhouse Sydney Museum
- Official Exhibition Site: Minnesota Science Museum (Saint Paul)
- Official Exhibition Site: Science Museum, Boston
- Professor Displays The Science Behind Star Wars Technology in Indiana State Museum's 'Science'
- Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination in Wookieepedia, Star Wars wizards
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