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Natural History Museum Stuffs Animals for Climate Change

How can the American Museum of Natural History convey the looming threat of climate change with its new exhibition on the subject? By using the hard-hitting power of dioramas for all they’re worth. This stuffed tableau of a polar bear walking through some trash is the museum version of the Communist Manifesto or the Declaration…

io9 Alex Carnevale Oct 20

Tate Modern Exhibit Imagines London’s Apocalyptic End

Step into Turbine Hall in London’s Tate Modern and you are immediately greeted by the sound of pounding rain and a giant spider looming over rows of cage-like dormitory beds. It’s all part of “TH.2058” Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s new interactive installation, an apocalyptic vision set 50 years in the future. In this world, all that’s left…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 13

California Academy of Sciences Reopens in an Orgy of Ecotechture

Over the weekend, the newly-revamped ecotechtural marvel known as the California Academy of Sciences opened its doors to the general public in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Packed with new, high-tech exhibits and massive tanks showing off slices of the coastal ecosystem, the museum is a monument to eco-consciousness on every level. From its living…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 29

Robot Planes Target Smithsonian

A squadron of six robot planes are now perpetually buzzing visitors to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, performing “reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition,” and possibly even attacks. Or at least, they would be if they weren’t part of the new exhibit celebrating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). This is one of the most cutting-edge displays…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Apr 30

Murakami Tells io9 About His Secret Love For J.J. Abrams

We had a chance to see the amazingly eye-blistering @ Murakami exhibit in Los Angeles a couple of months ago before they packed everything up and headed to Brooklyn. The same exhibit is now on display at the Brooklyn Museum until July 13th, and is definitely worth checking out. We nabbed a few moments with…

io9 Kevin Kelly Apr 23

Starfighting In The Museum Of The Improbable

This awesome model of a starfighter, complete with a helpful little refueling probe-bot, is one of the models available at The Museum of the Improbable. Artist Greg deSantis has also created incredible concept models of a reimagined Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, amazing steampunk British tanks, space pirates boarding a ship through a…

io9 Kevin Kelly Mar 12

Chengdu Museum is Starfleet Academy Outside, Folk Tale Inside

The Chinese city of Chengdu was building a new museum, so it opened up the design to an international competition. British architecture firm Sutherland Hussey won with this building. The exterior may look ultra-modern, but this City Museum will feature traditional Chinese art like the shadow play and some natural history and folk history. When…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA Feb 20

Teaching Asian Schoolchildren How to Talk to Aliens

A traveling alien exhibit makes its way to the Miraikan, a science museum in Tokyo, in March. It may not be first time that the children of Asia will get to interact with extraterrestrial life, but it’s probably the first time they’ve done it in a museum. The best part? The exhibition teaches kids that…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA Jan 31

User-Generated Architecture?

The Miami Art Museum’s not just getting a redesign. It’s also redesigning the process of redesigning a museum. Instead of sticking to a static blueprint, Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron are giving us only a tentative idea of what the $220 million downtown Miami building is going to look like. Locals will…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA Dec 3

Tomorrowland Sucks

Disneyland promises visitors through its gates four separate worlds that are supposed to thrill and delight you: Fantasyland, Adventureland, Frontierland, and Tomorrowland. While the other lands deliver on that promise, Tomorrowland seems like it got stuck in Yesterdayland. Once a portal to the future, the amusement park has now been surpassed in coolness by several…

io9 Kevin Kelly Nov 29

Happy Birthday Forrest J Ackerman and Scifi Fandom

Forrest J Ackerman is one of those people that you’ve probably never heard about unless you’re a dyed-in-the-wool fan of all things science fiction. However, the man created science fiction fandom virtually one handed, starting back in 1930. Ackerman just celebrated 91 years of scifi fanatacism, and he doesn’t show any signs of slowing down.…

io9 Kevin Kelly Nov 26

Green Ooze Controls Woman’s Mind

From “Can algae save the world?” an exhibit at the Science Museum in London running until April 2008. Scientists are hoping the entire planet will use algae as biofuels in the future. More menacing algae after the jump. Images by Kirsty Wigglesworth for AP.

io9 Charliejane Nov 19

Alien Visitors Always Look Like Potato Fetuses

Why are aliens always such a cliche? This one is a mockup of the Roswell Alien from the Museum of Science’s new exhibit, “The Science of Aliens,” which opens Sunday. Click through for more images, including figures from Aliens and Alien Autopsy.Images by David Adame for AP.

io9 Charliejane Nov 16

Robot Guides Museum Visitors, Crushes Heads

In our ever-suicidal spiral towards a Matrix-like dystopia full of evil, slave-driving robots, we are pleased to introduce Cicerobot, a robotic museum guide that is watching and will strike when the moment is at hand. While this robot is designed to guide museum visitors around the Agrigento Regional Archaeological Museum, other robots will be programmed…

Tech News Johnb Mar 21

Natural History Museum Stuffs Animals for Climate Change

Tate Modern Exhibit Imagines London’s Apocalyptic End

California Academy of Sciences Reopens in an Orgy of Ecotechture

Robot Planes Target Smithsonian

Murakami Tells io9 About His Secret Love For J.J. Abrams

Starfighting In The Museum Of The Improbable

Chengdu Museum is Starfleet Academy Outside, Folk Tale Inside

Teaching Asian Schoolchildren How to Talk to Aliens

User-Generated Architecture?

Tomorrowland Sucks

Happy Birthday Forrest J Ackerman and Scifi Fandom

Green Ooze Controls Woman’s Mind

Alien Visitors Always Look Like Potato Fetuses

Robot Guides Museum Visitors, Crushes Heads

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