Discover Steampunk opened Tuesday at Western Heritage Museum
, 2022-02-03 08:00:00,
Frank Rovito, left, and Edgar Olave from Imagine Exhibitions and Kim Claunch, curator of the Western Heritage Museum and Lea County Cowboy Hall of Fame, join hands to complete an electrical circuit and send power to Edison lightbulbs overhead in one of the displays in Discovering Steampunk, an interactive exhibit at the museum through June 5.
Andy Brosig/News-Sun
Blending 19 century aesthetics with 21st century technology is the theme of a new exhibit opened Tuesday at the Western Heritage Museum and Lea County Cowboy Hall of Fame on the New Mexico Junior College campus in Hobbs.
Discovering Steampunk brings such names as Jules Verne, HG Wells and Mary Shelley and their visions of the future. Erin Anderson, museum executive director, and Kim Claunch, curator, encountered the company responsible for the exhibit, Imagine Exhibitions of Atlanta, Ga., at an American Alliance of Museums conference.
“They had several exhibits — dinosaurs, space, Titanic,” Anderson said. “Steampunk just stood out to us as something that’s really educational combining science and art. It’s something fun that everyone is intrigued about but they don’t really know.”
A subgenre of science fiction, steam-punk uses steam as a power source and “is an inspired movement of creativity and imagination….
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