Cosmomania Exhibit Takes Shape

Cosmomania Exhibit Takes Shape

Posted on by Scott Young
Posted on: Wednesday January 26, 2011

We’re deep in the installation of our upcoming exhibit, “Cosmomania: The Great Space Adventure”. Here are a few images from the exhibit, which opens February 4 and is FREE to the public (thank you to the Canadian Space Agency for supporting its cross-Canada tour).

A sign with writing "cnythnk / spoutnik 57".

Sputnik 1957 banner.

A reflective metal orb on a stand in front of a chalkboard like sign with blueprints on it.

Sputnik workshop, 1957.

A white space helmet with red letters across the top reading CCCP.

Yuri’s Helmet.

Figures of Tintin, Captain Haddock, and Snowy the dog in orange space suits next to a red rocket.

Tintin astronaut figures.

Close up on a wallpaper pattern in reds, oranges, and browns, showing microscopes and humanoid figures working with tools like wrenches and poles.

Communist wallpaper, Soviet Union c. 1961.

Scott Young

Scott Young

Planetarium Astronomer

Scott is the Planetarium Astronomer at the Manitoba Museum, developing astronomy and science programs. He has been an informal science educator for thirty years, working in the planetarium and science centre field both at The Manitoba Museum and also at the Alice G. Wallace Planetarium in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Scott is an active amateur astronomer and a past-President of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.

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