H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine".  His machine is placed in a museum of past
technology.

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In article <[log in to unmask]>, "Gleeson, Judith"
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> I'm inspired by the interest in childrens fiction to ask people to dredge up
> memories of all those wonderful museums in sci/fi. How about Old Earth in
> Hyperion?It was really a museum of the past of the Web World. Or perhaps
> those computer reords of our personal histories that everyone seems to carry
> in the future could be the place for museums of the future. The well world of
> jack Chalker is a sort of seeding prototype of life; a sort of conservators
> dream really, with Nathan the curator on call. if you can think of some
> future museums as reflected in sci/fi I'd be grateful if you could list them
> for me.
> Judy Gleeson
> arts faculty
> Victoria Uni of technology
> melbourne
> Australia