IMoB is proud to present its latest block busting Temporary Exhibition:
Museum Objects in This Future World
Where & When.....
The Illegal Museum of Beyond
Visitor Interpretation Centre: The Arcs
Temp Gallery E12 alpha
31 March 0002026 CE – 30 September 0002035 CE
Free entry, Open daily 0:00–24:00
Closed Christmas - New Years Day
Museum Objects in This Future World
For the first time, relics excavated from the Getty Ark site have been brought together in one extraordinary exhibition. Though the meticulous scholarship of our dedicated team of Illegal Museum of Beyond experts, we have pieced together the hidden provenance that links these relics to the Getty Ark. These treasures have for too long languished anonymously, out of sight, behind the scenes in off-world IMoB collection stores. We have worked tirelessly to produce an exhibition to remember, but we couldn't have done this without the unwavering support of our commercial sponsors (names redacted to prevent IMoB reputational damage and potential litigation)
Our exhibition assembles a snapshot of the chaotic times when humanity’s treasures were being gathered together in the protective embrace of the Getty Ark. Unfortunately, the Getty Ark site was one of the first to be destroyed in the convulsions at the End of the Old World Order in 0002035 CE. In hindsight, it is all too easy to be critical of locating the World’s Treasures in this obviously precarious location.
However, who at the time was to know that the Old World was to be consumed in the cumulative decline of the climate crisis, extreme heat, drought, wildfires, intense storms, landslides, floods, pandemics, earthquakes, tsunami, political extremism, nuclear conflict, and ecocidal collapse, all brought on by the Great Asteroid Strikes…amongst other disasters.
Feel free to dwell in your meander through the newly opened temporary galleries of the IMoB Visitor Interpretation Centre (the Arcs), and see where you can believe in the histories of futures already long passed, which may not yet have existed (for you!).
Arc 1
What was our world like before?
What is it like now?
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Arc 2
What were we like before?
What are we like now ?
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Arc 3
How did we live before?
How do we live now?
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Project background
This exhibition encourages us to remake connections with what came before, even where knowledge of these past worlds has not survived the interruption.
We see how sentient life continues through episodes of extended Dark Ages alternating with brief Golden Ages. The end of Each Golden Age was an unexpected shock to those who lived through it, and had no reason to think it would ever end. They didn’t realise they lived in a Dark Age until they entered a Golden Age.
The darkness of lost and broken worlds was in the mass amnesia when even the memory of loss was also lost. The end of each Dark Age was signified by a nostalgic interest in the previous Golden Age, which initiated earnest scholarly attempts to connect the diminished present with its glorious origins in the past.
In the absence of any information about the reality of these distant worlds, it would be unprofessional for us not to make things up in order to fill the gaps of what is now missing. These gaps in understanding can be filled though retrospective speculative fabulations and creative imagination. In understanding these past worlds, we are able explore the consequences of our actions in creating these future worlds, after the rupture. It is therefore merely necessary to present a connection between the past, the future, and the present that people can believe in, rather than anything that is real.