The What Museum of Minnesota?

On Kellogg Boulevard across from the NSP Arena [Save me the comments and emails. I thought it was Xcel also, but when they send me my monthly electrical bill, they say to make checks payable to Northern States Power] and west of the property Ramsey County says it no longer needs even as it tries to find places near the Court House for employees is a big building called a museum, the latest incarnation of the Science Museum of Minnesota which has migrated from on the hill on University Avenue to Tenth Street and to.

It is apparently quite a tourist attraction. Remembering the success of the Titanic exhibit that Norm and his henchman Erich Mische brought to Union Depot, they knew that we in this region did not respect tombs around here and recently correctly extended that premise by capitalizing on on our disrespect for the dead with a show of bodies. And now they are cashing in on pop culture with a Star Wars exhibit.

I haven’t seen this new exhibit. I cannot imagine that I will. I saw the first Star Wars movie, appropriately named Star Wars, in 1977 and I was bored. The two robots seemed too much inspired by Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble and had none of their appeal [and certainly none of the Ralph and Ed from whom the men from Bedrock had been patterned],

Now we are supposed to believe that science fiction is science. When I was in about junior high school way back in the Twentieth Century we were told that science fiction [which was then predicting telephones with pictures and with buttons instead of dials and that we would be moving about with miniature jet engines around our backs by the early days of this century] and science were different things.

Well, our telephones pretty much all have buttons now, but pictures are still pretty rare and almost everybody I know still has to do his/her own perambulation. And none of them ever seemed to have heard of cell phones or the internet.

Go to the Science Museum if Star Wars or other science fiction impresses you. It’s your time and money. I’m no scientist. And I wouldn’t expect to become one by seeing the Star Wars exhibit.

And, of course, you will have to get there before the Republicans come to town since the place is just one of several places they have been given exclusive access to.