Eternals Costumes Will Be on Display at the Smithsonian’s ‘FUTURES’ Exhibit

Fans of Marvel’s Eternals will soon have the chance to get a much closer look at the costumes from the epic debut of the cosmic team in the MCU as five of the original costumes will be going on display as part of the new Smithsonian “FUTURES” exhibition in the Arts and Industries Building from November 20th. The exhibit will also feature behind the scenes information about how advancements in technology have allowed the movie industry to expand its ability to show distant and amazing futures on screen.

“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,” Ashley Molese, curator at AIB said in a statement. “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.”

The exhibit will feature the costumes of Sersi, Phastos, Sprite, Druid and Ikaris, and has been created with the purpose of showing “explore leaps of imagination” which is something that Marvel could certainly not be accused of being short of in their long history. Behind the scenes details will show the journey from page to screen, with full visual effects as seen in the final cinematic movie. There will also be a new augmented reality experience, which is also available via an app, which allows visitors to delve into amazing interactive worlds like never before.

The display of Eternals costumes and the story of their creation will appear alongside a number of other comic book and sci-fi-based art that shows just how the power of world-building has been enhanced over the years. New concept art for a 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea comic by Jeffrey Veregge, the video game Never Alone, Octavia Butler’s typewriter, Afrofuturism-inspired work by Stacey Robinson set in a Black utopia, and promotional posters that envision what the Smithsonian exhibitions may look like in 2017 created by Brian Miller.

“It’s exciting to see Eternals costumes on display at the Smithsonian in this new FUTURES exhibit,” Eternals producer Nate Moore said. “Imagination, storytelling, and world-building form the foundation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and these costumes are great examples of that. Immense thought and detail went into their design, created by Ryan Meinerding and his visual development team and costume designer Sammy Sheldon Differ, and we hope visitors will find themselves transported to the world of Jack Kirby and the Eternals while viewing them.”

Promoted as a part exhibition, part festival, FUTURES will be a celebration of the 175th anniversary of the Smithsonian and will feature 150 ideas, objects, and installations that bring art, technology and history together to imagine what could then become possible in the future. It will also temporarily reopen America’s oldest museum for the first time in almost 20 years as the first major building-wide look at the future on the National Mall. The exhibit will run from November 20th, 2021 to July 2022. You can read more at the official website for the Smithsonian’s FUTURES exhibit.

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