The "Eternals" display will be part of a new exhibit at the Arts and Industries Building on the National Mall.
Costumes from Marvel’s latest superhero film are coming to the Smithsonian in D.C. Five costumes from Eternals will be on display at the Arts and Industries Building beginning on November 20.
The limited display is part of the new FUTURES exhibit, which celebrates the 175th anniversary of the Smithsonian Institution of Museums. The exhibit will feature more than 150 art, technology, and science displays, including futuristic AI vehicles and a solar sail.
The Eternals film is based on a Marvel comic book series about a group of immortals that resurfaces to battle Deviants set on destroying human life on earth. Costumes for the characters Sersi, Phastos, Sprite, Druig, and Ikaris will be included in the exhibit.
“Since comics first came to prominence in the U.S. in the 1930s, they’ve flourished as an exciting new form of storytelling featuring entire universes with their own languages, cultures, people, heroines and places,” said Ashley Molese, curator at AIB. “Leaping from comic page to the screen, Marvel has helped create a whole new experience of world-building and future casting. ‘Eternals’ takes some radical approaches to filmmaking by playing with scale and visual effects in ways never seen before in the MCU, time-traveling through humanity’s earliest civilizations to beyond the cosmos.”
Visitors will also be able to view behind-the-scenes content on how the film was created and take part in virtual reality experiences based on the Eternals story.
Rendering of the FUTURES exhibit at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., Courtesy of Smithsonian
FUTURES at the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building opens to the public on Saturday, November 20, and runs through July 6, 2022. On Friday, November 11, 2021, Bill Nye the Science Guy will give a preview of FUTURES through a Livestream on social media beginning at 11 a.m. EST.
FUTURES will be open daily except for Tuesdays, with no timed-ticket requirements.
Have you seen Eternals yet? If so, what did you think? Will you be checking out the new exhibit at the Smithsonian? Comment below.
