Seattle - Science Fiction Museum

I have a confession to make. Earlier this year when we were in San Diego, we actually skipped the zoo and actually went to an exhibit at the Space center on Star Trek. We even had our picture taken as a family on the bridge of the Enterprise.

So, these are geeks we're talking about here.

But, I have to say that the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle, which is in the same building as the Experience Music Project (near the Space Needle), is well worth a visit. 

What they did really well was to mix together the work of many different science fiction creators, and show how their ideas influenced one another. And, they had really cool artifacts like a model of the Death Star used in the movies and the plastic raincoat from "Blade Runner" (which appeared in a pretty gnarly scene, so it's a grownup thing, but just hanging there it's no big deal).

Science fiction is like one big thought experiment, where people try on various realities and decide what happens. Star Trek was a huge breakthrough when it put people of multiple races and genders on the bridge together. And there are so many other examples. 

Anyway, if you are a sci fi nerd like me, it's totally worth it to see such a massive number of artifacts and props and stories and personalities so well presented.