You are in the Parking Lot

The MOTT, as it's known colloquially, is located in an unassuming small city on the East Coast. The building has a surprisingly low profile, resembling a slab of dark concrete that had flown head-first into a nice golf course. One end is noticeably elevated, so the building looks like it had embedded itself into earth. The parking lot is located opposite the higher end, and is designed so that if you were to look at the landscape from above, they resemble the skid marks of a crashed spaceship. This is where you have parked.

As you walk toward The North Entrance, you noticed that the smaller outlying buildings are arranged to resemble chunks of spaceship that had broken off from the main superstructure that is the Museum. It doesn't look that big from where you are, but the majority of the museum is located underground. The idea, explains the brochure you are glancing through, is that Transformation and Translation are a large part of our existence, yet we aren't even aware of it; the small surface footprint of The MOTT is intended to convey this. But mostly, admits the brochure, the Founders of the Museum wanted to make it look like a crashed monolithic spaceship--it reminds you of the U.S.S. Cygnus from Disney's 1979 space flick The Black Hole--laden with golf course-destroying technical insights. Such is the altered perspective that the Founders possessed.

Ahead of you, from the parking lot to the south, you see the North Entrance, which is the main entrance to the Museum. There is also a small Gateway that stradles a winding path to the outlying buildings shaped like chunks of broken-off spaceship.

• Go to The North Entrance
• Go to Gateway to Outlying Buildings