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Canton de Vaud<\/a>, Switzerland<\/a> | Unique Collections<\/a><\/p>\n

Maison d’Ailleurs or the “House of Elsewhere” revolves around extraordinary journeys… of the mind, at least. It is a museum of science fiction, utopias and other futurist writings. <\/p>\n

The museum has had an intense history since its creation in 1976. Pierre Versins, an archivist who collected works of science fiction and related memorabilia, donated his archives to the city of Yverdon-les-Bains, which created the museum. Though originally located in a three-story townhouse, in 1991 the collection was moved to a more impressive location: a former prison built in 1806, located in the middle of the city. Unfortunately, the city cut the budget of the museum in 1995 and most of the staff was dismissed. A foundation was created to manage the museum in 1998, and a new director, Patrick Gyger, was named to coordinate the efforts. <\/p>\n

Today, its archives contain around 70,000 documents related to science fiction or futuristic — books, art pieces, toys — including some very old, as early as the sixteenth century, and unique pieces. The collections of the museum are also used for iconographic purposes or research (literature, history of ideas, design, etc.)and houses one of the most important collection of documentation about Jules Verne in the world.<\/p>\n

In 2008, the museum premiered a new wing dedicated entirely to Jules Verne and early science fiction. It also presents two to three temporary exhibitions per year, around the main themes of science fiction — cities of the future (both utopian and dystopian), space travel and aliens, lost worlds, etc — and the artists that rendered them beautifully.<\/p>\n

Maison d’Ailleurs is a resource that not only catalogs our ever changing vision of the future but preserves it for our actual future, so that they may understand something better about us, something any science fiction writer can surely appreciate. <\/p>\n

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