My wife and I just got back from the Muzeo in Anaheim.
THERE IS ONE MORE DAY LEFT. TOMMORRO THE 12TH IS THE LAST DAY!
There have been several posts over this last year about it, plus Dick Nordrum
let everyone know about at the last club meeting.
It is worth seeing. Go Here:

http://www.muzeo.org/exhibit_current.html#steampunk

It was my kind of nostalgia:
A full size replica of George Pal's Time Machine; a fairly large replica model
of Walt Disney's Nautilus; a terrific bronze bust of Karloff as the Frankenstein
monster; lots of posters, antiquarian books, old comics (some I remember
having); some of H. G. Wells' political pamphlets from the forties war years (I
jotted down those ferociously political titles) ; other tributes to Cyrano de
Bergerac, the Respe/Burger traditions of Baron Munchhausen, Verne (of course),
Mary Shelly, Poe, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle (Holmes was worked
in somehow), and many others of the 19th and early 20th century, authors who I
have always read, but who are NOT really examples of "Steampunk".
There were also very interesting framed examples of large printed card cut-out
models from a century back for making dirigibles and submarines and the like,
which also are not Steampunk, but very interesting to see.
And, of course, examples of the Steampunk phenomenon – which, for being what the
exhibit was supposed to celebrate, seemed underplayed. I had seen equally
interesting examples of this for sale on the dealer's floors of last year's
ConDor and Loscon.
Still, there were some clever creations – so it is an art form of sorts.
I was a little disappointed in not seeing tributes to the current writers of the
genre from which the exhibit got its name, and that had me wondering what
"Steampunk" had become – that the term has out stepped its literary origins.
I was glad to see it embracing those who I have always loved.

The other exhibit (just starting and will remain for many months) was about
literature no less fantastic – a yes-in-deedely display of ancient Bible
manuscripts and printed editions.

Ralph