To celebrate 20 years of the Museum of Pop Culture, we're highlighting 20 of the most notable moments from MoPOP's history. For our nonprofit museum's 10th milestone (see the first nine milestones at the bottom of this blog!), we're spotlighting the 2003 launch of our Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, which has since transformed into our Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

2003: Exploring a different side of pop culture from the music-focused Experience Music Project, the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame launched in the south side of our building. Its exhibitions examined how the core ideas of science fiction, such as aliens and other worlds, are used as a mirror to reflect on ourselves and our society.

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