by Pavek Museum | Jan 29, 2025 | Curator’s Corner
Picture this: 1830s United States, Jackson Administration. The U.S. is at a turning point, pulled by two forces that are polarizing the country and pushing it to the brink of destruction. On the one hand, the expansion to the West was impaired by treaties with the...
by Pavek Museum | Jan 3, 2025 | Curator’s Corner
You’ve probably heard of and even used VHS. How about Betamax or Video High Density (VHD)? The latter is a rare Japanese format that had very limited use, which is why you probably haven’t heard of it. Imagine a world where watching family memories is extremely...
by Pavek Museum | Dec 6, 2024 | Curator’s Corner
That man has been called “The Father of Modern Science Fiction,” also known as Hugo Gernsback. Let’s talk about how he motivated millions of people not only to tinker and invent but also to imagine better futures for these technologies. If you are not a science...
by Kaeleen Laird | Oct 30, 2024 | Curator’s Corner
October 2024 Minnesota may not be the first place that comes to mind when discussing computer innovation. However, from the 1950s to the late 1980s, Minnesota served as an incubator for groundbreaking technological advancements in computing. Surprisingly, the origin...
by Kaeleen Laird | Sep 26, 2024 | Curator’s Corner
By the 1960s, the science fiction genre was going stale and feeling repetitive. Too many action-filled, space-cowboy operas where a lone male protagonist saved the girl and the galaxy, all with his intellect and physical prowess, saturated the market. Some writers saw...
by Kaeleen Laird | Aug 28, 2024 | Curator’s Corner
Mexico might not be the first place you think about when it comes to technological innovations, but here’s the story of a man who tried to make his country the first to have color television. Guillermo González Camarena was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1917. From a...