Science meets pop culture in the highly interactive 10,000 square foot touring exhibit of Star Wars. We didn’t want to miss the final leg of the $5 million extravaganza so we made sure to visit The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose. The exhibit launched in 2005 in Boston, garnering more than two million visitors worldwide during nine years.
The gallery has 80 artifacts from Tatooine to Hoth as well as prosthetic limbs and a hands-on hovercraft. The exhibit shows the engineering behind robots and the physics of space travel. It includes authentic props, costumes and models from all six Star Wars films including the Yoda puppet, R2-D2, the Chewbacca costume, the three-section Darth Vader helmet from Revenge of the Sith, Luke Skywalker’s original landspeeder, models of the X-wing and the Millennium Falcon. There are also costumes for Mace Windu, Princess Leia, Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Stormtroopers, and lightsabers belonging to Luke, Obi-Wan, Darth Maul and Count Dooku.
There’s a “naked” C-3PO, a protocol droid that Anakin Skywalker built entirely from scrap parts to help his mother with her work. He never quite got around to finishing his project, so C-3PO remained uncovered for years.
For these final months of its tour, Boba Fett joins the exhibition. It is the only time that the renowned bounty hunter has appeared in the 20-venue international journey of the Star Wars®: Where Science Meets Imagination. This is the last chance to see the exhibition so if you are a Star Wars fan, plan a trip to The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif. before March 23. As Yoda said, “Do or do not … there is no try.” For more info, visit www.thetech.org
This article also appears in LGBT Weekly as part of our column SceneOut.
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