Imagining the Future
by The Space Museum & The Grissom Center
Exhibition Dates: September 2021 through March 2022
Location: The Lambert Gallery East
The Space Museum located in Bonne Terre, Missouri, has curated a collection of space-inspired vintage toys from the Museum’s collection to be on view at STL . These toys and others like them are the foundation of a generation’s fixation on outer space, inspiring children throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and into the 1960s to dream in the stars. Works on display include a collection of toy space helmets and ray guns, imaginative and detailed toy transport vehicles, and ephemera from several space themed syndications including Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers.
About the Organization: The Space Museum & The Grissom Center
Throughout his life, Space Museum founder and exhibition curator Earl Mullins has been greatly inspired by all things outer space beginning as a child with toys like those in Imaging the Future. While he has not achieved his dream of becoming an astronaut, Mullins hopes to inspire others and share the wonders of space through The Space Museum – the mission of which is “Touching the past, inspiring the future.”
To learn more, visit: www.space-mo.org
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