MOSF Journal of Science Fiction

Museum of Science Fiction

Established	April 2013 (2013-04)
Location	Washington, D.C.
Type	Science Fiction Museum
Director	Greg Viggiano
Curator	Regan Samul
Website	www.museumofsciencefiction.org

The Museum of Science Fiction (MOSF) is a 501c(3) nonprofit museum to be based in Washington, D.C. It was founded in the spring of 2013 by Greg Viggiano and a team of 22 volunteer professionals with a goal of becoming the world's first comprehensive science fiction museum.

Since 2016, the museum publishes the triannual MOSF Journal of Science Fiction.

The Museum of Science Fiction was planning to open a preview museum in late 2015 as a step toward opening the full museum in 2018. The preview museum is envisioned to be a 4,000 square foot multi-purpose location, open for 48 months near a DC Metro station before redeployment as a satellite location that travels to other global cities to promote the Museum and its mission. This first physical iteration of the preview museum was to feature four gallery change-outs to encourage higher revisit-rates and provide a way for curators to capture early visitor feedback. The interior was expected to also function as a venue for special events including dinners, presentations, film screenings, and lectures with seating for up to 150 attendees.

Despite an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign not reaching its goal, in July 2014 the museum hosted an architecture design contest for the museum's first home, with locations in D.C. and northern Virginia under consideration. The site selection process was expected to be completed by the end of 2014, with the Preview Museum opening in 2015 and the full-scale 50,000 square-foot facility in 2018.

The Museum is intended to encompass seven permanent galleries that celebrate and encourage the human tendency to always ask, "What if?" The permanent galleries include: The Creators; Other Worlds; Vehicles; Time Travels; Aliens, Creatures, and Altered Life; Computers and Robots; and Technology. Science fiction is to be presented as a form of rational speculation that has influenced and been influenced by scientific and technological progress for centuries.

From August 2014, the museum was hosting an exhibit design competition seeking exhibits that will be used in the four-year life of the preview museum.

The MOSF Journal of Science Fiction is a triannual peer-reviewed open access academic journal covering science fiction studies published by the Museum of Science Fiction since January 2016. The editor-in-chief is Heather McHale (University of Maryland.