Permanent Galleries
The Space Age
Full-scale Apollo Command Module replica beside a first edition of Verne. Mission patches from Mercury through Apollo 17. Clarke, Bradbury, and Heinlein alongside flight hardware. A Voyager Golden Record listening station.
Enter gallery →The Propulsion Gallery
Goddard's 1926 liquid-fueled rocket. Quarter-scale F-1 engine cutaway. A hydraulic thrust press. Fuel chemistry samples in sealed glass. Deeper in, drive models built from descriptions in Niven, Heinlein, and Cherryh.
Enter gallery →The Observatory
Hand-cranked brass orrery, eight feet in diameter. The Hubble Deep Field across the full north wall. Galileo telescope reproduction. A reading alcove with Stapledon and Lem. A room beyond.
Enter gallery →First Contact
The Drake Equation in brass with adjustable variables. A period Philco radio playing the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast. Alien species as described by Wells, Clarke, Lem, the Strugatskys, and Le Guin.
Enter gallery →The Thinking Machine
R.U.R. stage set reproduction. Asimov first editions with the Three Laws in brass. A reconstructed positronic brain. Babbage's Difference Engine. A working HAL 9000 interface. Turing test transcripts.
Enter gallery →Generation Ships & Distant Shores
Scale models of ships from Heinlein and Robinson. A walk-through habitat module with water reclamation and growing beds. Seed vault display. Project Daedalus documentation. Le Guin and Bradbury first editions.
Enter gallery →The Archive
The conservation bench. The stacks. A crate of recently recovered volumes, not yet sorted. Condition logs, intake manifests, and a running inventory of the collection. Pulp magazines in archival sleeves.
Enter gallery →Worlds of Tomorrow
Forty-seven ray guns in a curved display case, manufactured by Hubley, Marx, and Wyandotte, 1930 to 1975. Japanese tin robots with visible mechanisms. Spacesuits built from Heinlein and Clarke. Three domed city models.
Enter gallery →Now on View
The Voyager Record at Fifty
Reproduction pressings of the Golden Record, the original selection committee's correspondence, and a listening station with two sets of headphones. The exhibition occupies the west alcove of Gallery One through the end of the season.
The Park
Forty-two acres of open ground in a temperate coastal climate. The permanent galleries are housed in a central pavilion with a south pavilion added in the second phase of construction. The grounds include paths through native coastal vegetation, an outdoor sculpture garden with full-scale spacecraft reproductions, and an observation platform at the highest point of the property. Views to the horizon in three directions.
The park is open daily. Visiting →