Alien museum news!

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Here is an article from the Roswell Daily Record that I thought everyone might enjoy! This is the newest plan for Roswell. If you are familiar with Roswell, the new museum will be located across from our Alien Themed McDonalds! It definately is an unworldly time and place to be right now as the world is shaking all around us! We hang on and look forward! Enjoy the article








Andrew Cone

Far out! New International UFO Museum ‘celestial navigation chart’

Thursday, October 01, 2009
Award winning architect E. Kevin Schopfer discussed his design for the new International UFO Museum to a crowd of about 150 at the Community Foundation’s Illustrious Achievement Dinner, held at the Sally Port Inn Tuesday night.

Schopfer was selected to help design the new building by the museum’s board in 2006, and discussed many of the details during the dinner. He said he first got the idea to help with the design after seeing a television program about plans to construct a new UFO museum in Roswell.

“I thought it looked very, very interesting and I called Julie [Shuster] to ask if they needed an architect,” he said. “I started sending in some sketches and eventually we got to the point where we were both comfortable that this one would be good.”

Schopfer said that in creating the design for the new museum, he and Schuster were trying to avoid the spaceship look. “We’re calling what we came up with a celestial navigation chart — it’s an alien object as opposed to an alien ship.”

Schopfer said the museum will be constructed in phases, with a final price tag in the area of $25 million.

Julie Shuster, the museum’s director, said the new building will be about 30,000 square feet and the groundbreaking will be no later than October 2010. She said the museum will be constructed on an entire city block between East Seventh and East Eighth streets and North Main Street and North Virginia Avenue.

She said some existing buildings in that block are expected to be razed and some additional museum buildings would eventually be constructed on two other lots on the east side of Virginia Avenue.

Shuster said there is always the possibility of some small changes in the design. “There’s always things that have to be fine tuned, but that design is very close, if not totally accurate.”

She said the museum is aiming for a grand opening in July 2011.

Schopfer has worked on cutting-edge architectural projects all over the world including the Mercator, a floating city of 100,000 people designed to circumnavigate the globe every three to four years. He was also instrumental in the design of the Avenger Bugatti Yacht, a 160-foot tri-hull super yacht with an elevator, a movie theater, an on-board spa and a 7,000-mile cruising range.

“He’s very visionary and he thinks globally,” Shuster said. “I don’t think he ever sleeps because he’s always coming up with new ideas.”