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 →The Studio
Three drafting tables under north light. India ink, dip pens, and sable brushes. A pen plotter. Pages in progress — pencil, then ink. Finished drawings in a flat file. A reference wall of compositional studies and pinned sequences.
Enter gallery →The Collection
Everything in the galleries was built from what is in the stacks. The Archive holds 4,217 novels spanning a century and a half of speculative literature — recovered from bookshops, private residences, and libraries across the continent, catalogued on intake, and shelved. The complete catalog is organised by era, with provenance notes and structural context.
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 →