The sun has set on another fantastic Whitby Steampunk Weekend, but you’re not quite ready to put away the brass goggles just yet. Here are five locations in the northeast of England that are worth a visit before you head home.
The Tesla Science Center said it needs the money for “emergency remediation efforts” following the Nov. 21 fire at the building that housed Nikola Tesla’s last remaining laboratory. The group is raising the funds on Indiegogo.
The fire could delay efforts to construct a museum and science center dedicated to Nikola Tesla. The site on Long Island housed the iconic Wardenclyffe Tower, where Tesla hoped to demonstrate wireless power transmission.
Transfix will featuring Burning Man-style art installations, including El Pulpo Magnifico, a fire-spewing mechanical octopus created by Duane Flatmo. It’s the new and improved successor to Flatmo’s El Pulpo Mechanico.
Steampunk fans in Southern California now have a new culinary destination as Universal Studios Hollywood announced the official opening of the restaurant at Universal CityWalk. It’s similar to the one that opened in 2016 in Orlando.
Steampunks set their sights on the stars as the National Space Centre in Leicester, UK once again hosted Steampunks in Space. The event featured an art exhibition, authors/artists alley, a steampunk market, and lots of cosplay.
The new SMUD Museum of Science and Curiosity recruited members of the Sacramento Steampunk Society to act as hosts for its inaugural fundraising event, and the Society helped transform the space into a steampunk experience.
Steampunk artist Bruce Rosenbaum has been keeping busy lately, with a new teleconferencing gadget inspired by a 19th century cartoon and a steampunk aquarium for a museum in California.
Touted as Cluj-Napoca’s first steampunk museum, it’s really one of the few such places anywhere. The organizers welcome submissions from artists around the world. They also hope to launch a steampunk festival. The museum opened June 18.
Phantom Peak will place guests in a Wild West steampunk town with a canal, lake, waterfall, shops, eateries, and actors portraying townspeople. It will combine elements of escape rooms, immersive theater, and theme park attractions.
Discover Steampunk opened Feb. 1 at the Western Heritage Museum in New Mexico. It features sculptures by Bruce Rosenbaum along with historical artifacts. The Steampunk Explorer editor Stephen Beale provided consulting and editorial services.
Many steampunk fans would love to live in a town that has its own brick-and-mortar steampunk shop. But now St. Augustine, Florida boasts two, with the launch of a second, larger Aunt Matilda’s Steampunk Trunk near the original location.
Here’s a new destination for your steampunk itinerary, if you’re in the Seattle area. At Contrivance Wine & Mead Co., you can sample concoctions such as the Airship Red Blend or Strawberry Rhubarb Mead, then purchase bottles to take home.
Each year, steampunks in the UK gather at The Town That Never Was, a place where the Cthulhu Party rules, the 3rd Foot & Mouth regiment stands guard, and the Martian Expeditionary Force seeks recruits. We have photos to prove it.
The Brick Store Museum, host of the Southern Maine Steampunk Fair, received a Leadership in History Award for its Century Saturdays virtual exhibitions. The exhibitions included steampunk content.
The Velocipede Time Machine has landed in its new home at the Hagley Museum in Delaware. The half-ton contraption occupies the Visitor Center, which will become a showcase for the museum’s 19th century patent models.
Vintage trains and timepieces are icons of steampunk, and now a company in Connecticut has combined the two in Gauge Master, a series of watches that incorporate elements of historic locomotives.
It’s the sad end of an era as Fry’s Electronics announced that it’s closing all its stores. The chain was known for its vast retail spaces, quirky product selection, and unique theming of many locations.
Here’s a new entry for your steampunk bucket list, at least when international travel restrictions are lifted. Rookburgh is a steampunk-styled area that recently opened at PhantasiaLand, a theme park in Brühl, Germany, near Cologne.
Some places go to great expense to adopt steampunk designs — think Toothsome Chocolate Emporium in Orlando or Enigma Café in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. But if you’re a distillery or brewery, you can be steampunk without really trying.
The historic Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin will re-open as a tourist attraction and educational center under ownership of a new private foundation.
The Morris Museum in New Jersey is hosting The Adventures of Baron von Steubon and Cromwell: A Kinetic Tale, a showcase for 18 kinetic sculptures by David Bowman.
Universal Studios is planning a new Los Angeles-area location for The Toothsome Chocolate Emporium & Savory Feast Kitchen, the huge steampunk-themed eatery in Orlando.
