h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We've received word from our chums at the Science Museum in London of their new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Exhibition. This is your chance to see over 200 props, creatures and costumes from the movie at close range, including those oh-so-sexy eight-feet-tall Vogons and the Guide itself. Please be warned - this exhibition also features Vogon poetry readings. Sorry about that.

The exhibition opens on 28 May - visit the Science Museum's website for more information: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/hitchhikers

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and ohhhhhhhhhhh groovy!

Funny you should mention this, because quite a few of us have booked tickets for the 3pm show on July 16th as part of the Summer Meet (A3739601)

Rather slow as announcements go.

Hooray. London. Nice and accessible for all the people of the UK. No, wait, that's the Midlands.

Good job I don't have a desire to go anyway isn't it kids!

Traveller in Time first waiting for the movie to be shown
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>including those oh-so-sexy eight-feet-tall Vogons

(You can book appointments via Excentrica Golumbits ) "

I would *love* to attend a Vogon poetry-reading.

I would also love to take Vogon language lessons. (Hey, if they can create a language for Klingons, they should at least come up with one for Vogons )

Got my ticket for saturday, there's a mini meet going on that day coincedently

they came up with the written language for the film, basically Shorthand but with more regular edges, everything in Vogon text in the film has a meaning in shorthand. The guards have something like "Kill" on their sleeves.

CHawke

Thanks for the explanation.

The Vogons speak a dialect of the language spoken by all Civil Servants and politicians, surely?

Shame about the location. London is a bit like the Hyperspace Planning Dept on Alpha Centauri for me

turvy

Well it's pretty far for USans and not a few other fans as well. Do you suppose it will travel?

Interesting as the exhibition looks, has anyone looked at the admission prices? Yes, the Science Museum is free, but not if you want to go to special exhibitions...

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitors/location.asp#admission

It's a little bit on the expensive side!

That's infinitely improbable, so I would guess that it would.

Traveller in Time waiting for the movie
"I will see the documentary, when it is on television somewhere in the next twenty years. "

I wish I lived in the UK

well scandrea would offer you a place with me but tracer would not get on with henry, and would be one hell of a comute to college.

Sometimes the exhibitions tour to other countries, so you might be lucky!

Thanks for letting us know Eds, I hadn't heard of this before, I'll make sure that we go! Perhaps not at half-term though. All those kids around...

There's nothing on the meet webpage about the museum, EV?

Do we have to book tickets?? I remember turning up for the Star Trek exhibition (before museums were free) I paid to get in - then found out I had to pay almost £8 more to get into the Trek exhibition. I was so disappointed I walked out.

I don't mind paying £8 to see the Hitchhikers exhibition now the museum's free!

What time are people meeting at the museum?

Or, is this topic being discussed at the meet-up page?