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Space Age: Exploration, Design & Popular Culture
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Weston Park 3 May - 31 August 2008
Take one ‘giant leap’ this summer at Museums Sheffield: Weston Park with an out-of-this-world exhibition for the whole family. Space Age: Exploration, Design and Popular Culture invites visitors on a spectacular journey through the cosmos. A must-see show brought to Sheffield in association with the V&A Museum of Childhood, Space Age will run from 3 May -31 August 2008. The exhibition explores how space has become part of our lives through popular culture, literature, film, design and merchandising.
Featuring intriguing objects from the Museum of Childhood’s own collection, as well as fantastic loans from around the world, Space Age has something for space enthusiasts of all ages, from children making their own ‘first small steps’ to the generation who witnessed Neil Armstrong taking his ‘giant leap’ on the lunar surface in 1969. The exhibition explores how human fascination with space has developed, from the emergence of astronomy in around 2000BC to NASA’s most ambitious future plans to put humans on Mars.
From Buzz Aldrin to Buzz Lightyear, space has influenced everything from fashion to furniture, fiction and film. Amongst the 300 plus exhibits on show will be original Star Wars merchandise and prototypes, classic 50s and 60s Japanese tin robots, and classic TV show memorabilia. Lunar wallpaper designed by Michael Clark and Pierre Cardin ‘Cosmo Corps’ clothing will be exhibited alongside rare and exciting artefacts, including a piece of a Mars meteorite, an original Cosmonaut suit belonging to Russia’s Yuri Gidzenko, a model of SpaceShipOne (designed specifically to take tourists to space), and packets of actual NASA space food.
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