The journey of science fiction from niche to mainstream popular culture is to be explored in a major exhibition that will run the gamut from Jules Verne to Godzilla to Star Wars.
• Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction is at the Barbican Centre 2 June-1 September 2017.
The Barbican centre in London announced the first details of a sci-fi exhibition which would, it said, be unprecedented in terms of scale and ambition using film, music, literature and visual art to explore the subject across the art centre’s full estate.
Neil McConnon, head of Barbican international enterprises, said: “We’re not taking the usual approach to a science fiction exhibition, this is not just models and maquettes behind glass, it is a much more experimental take on the subject.