The Museum of Robots

Yesterday I was invited by my friend Motorato to a party celebrating the newly remodelled Museum of Robots. The museum’s mission is to “promote understanding of the role of robots in popular culture, art, and science and features exhibits, art and special events.” They have a number of special exhibits, such as “Bots, Bugs & Beasts: The Art of Joshua Ellingson” (reviewed in May, 2009 in ourvirtualtrilogy.blogspot.com) and “Robots & Donuts: The Art of Eric Joyner (http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-12060), as well as a Celebrity Robot Hall of Fame, a toy robot display, featuring the works of a private collection and robot photography. They also have a movie night every Friday.

The party was very successful, with a full sim present to listen to the music of Mankind Tracer. Many of the attendees were dressed as robots, and the party itself was held in a lava pit.

I returned later on to have a look around the museum and I discovered an area where you can create your own robot avatar. This was lots of fun, you choose a head, antenna, arms, power pack and legs, go off to a paint station and paint the surfaces and violá, you have a robot avatar!

The Museum of Robots is a fun place to visit, for those of you who are science fiction fans, robot fans or even those who remember the days of rock’em sock’em robots.

Hibiscus Hastings