Museum of Technology

The Museum of Technology is a building in the ruins of Washington, D.C. in 2277, on the southern side of the Mall. It is only a short distance away from the eastern Museum station metro exit.
==Background==
A grand museum, home to many iconic exhibits, vehicles, and attractions that educated and entertained tourists before the Great War. It is now home to super mutants.
==Layout==
The museum is one of buildings in the National Mall. The structure is crumbling, with pillars falling out of place and visible holes in the roof. In the years following the Great War, the attractions have sustained significant damage. 
Several exhibits can still be found in the museum, including several airplanes. The Wright Flyer I lays in pieces on the floor just inside the museum entrance. Deeper inside the museum, more airplanes can be found. Hanging from the ceiling in the same room as the Virgo II lunar lander is a P-51 Mustang. In the west wing of the museum, partially buried in the rubble is an unnamed model of fighter jet. Back in the atrium, a microfusion cell trap is located inside the first stall of the men's bathroom. Inside the toilet's water tank are an additional 35 cells.
Another large exhibit is a Vault-Tec Corporation demonstration vault model on the second floor. It serves as an example of what vault life would be like and displays the various technologies used by Vault-Tec in constructing the vaults. It consists of a hallway with windows that show examples of different vault sections. The rooms of the exhibit include a bedroom, kitchen, and classroom. One of the displays in the vault exhibition promises that a self-cleaning floor means dwellers "will never have to sweep again." Farther down the corridor is a skeleton holding a broom near a cleaning cart. Most of the containers within the Vault-Tec demonstration vault are functional containers, sometimes containing loot. 
Next to the windows are speakers which play recorded messages. Several gun and armor exhibits were scheduled for 2078, including laser pistols and power armor and antique weapons.Museum of Technology terminal entries; Research Lead's terminal A sub-basement with three fusion generators is described in the maintenance coordinator's notes, but cannot be found in the museum.
Two exhibits on the ground floor near the Delta rocket celebrate the first human space flight of Carl Bell as taking place on May 5, 1961 in the space capsule Defiance 7. There is a control room to the south, up the southernmost stairs in the back. Its windows are visible from the entry hall, behind a wire mesh installed by Derek Remmings, the maintenance coordinator in 2077. The maintenance computer to the east has a list of log entries by Remmings, detailing office politics from long ago.
The museum also contains a malfunctioning Copernicus Planetarium in the northern section of the west wing. The program will begin playing when the Lone Wanderer enters the room but eventually malfunctions and enters a continuous loop. Through the planetarium there are three terminals with "Far Out Space Facts." There is an office on the east side of the room containing the terminal of a pre-war researcher, a Nuka-Cola Quantum, and a locked gun cabinet containing various weapons and ammo. Upon exiting the office two super mutants will spawn in the planetarium entrance.
===Exhibits===
Image	Exhibit item 	Description
 	Type 1861 "Springfield" Rifle-Musket 	
 	M199 "The Backtalker" 	
 	X277 "Viper" Magnetic Rail Cannon 	
 	U.S.S. Ebon Atoll 	
 	Valiant 12 flag 	
 	 	
 	 	
 	Delta IX rocket 	
 	Carl Bell 	
 	Carl Bell 	
 	RobCo "Stealth Boy" Model 3001 Personal Stealth Device	
 	Vertibird 	
 	Virgo II 	
 	Wright Flyer I 	
==Notable loot==
* A Nikola Tesla and You skill book can be found on the second floor of the atrium, in the turret control room on the right of the maintenance computer.
* There are three Stealth Boys on display in the museum, complete with little plaques describing them: one in the main entrance of the atrium (southwest corner), and two more up the main stairs to the left in the entry room leading to the 'Halls of Today' exhibit. The Stealth Boys are much bigger than normal Stealth Boys found out in the wasteland.
* There are two hidden areas in the room with the multi-level staircase surrounding the Delta IX rocket. Starting from the lower floor, go up the stairs to the second floor, one will see two consoles that say 'Activate Delta IX rocket'. Just to the left of both consoles is a plaque, and to the left of that is the railing that guides its way to a thin ledge on the outside of the stairs for the third floor. At each gap, instead of going up the stairs (second floor stairs, and third), jump up onto the room railing, then down onto the little ledge that runs along the outside of the stairs. Follow the ledge to each hidden area.
** In the second area, there is a blocked-off room, which contains a Guns and Bullets skill book in the corner. This section also contains two unique, smaller-than-usual Nuka-Cola bottles.
** To the left of the desk with the Guns and Bullets copy, the fridge holds four bottles of purified water.
* In the planetarium office, there is a Nuka-Cola Quantum on the shelf.
* Gun locker key - In a safe in the museum's security office, opens a gun cabinet in the planetarium.
==Related quests==
* Jiggs' Loot: In the atrium, there is an unlit "Museum Information" terminal inside the translucent cowls usually used for telephones. It displays, below the usual menu items, a message from Prime to Jiggs, beginning the minor quest about a weapons cache in the security office (west of the planetarium) safe.
* Galaxy News Radio: In exchange for information about one's father, Three Dog requests a favor. One must recover a satellite dish from the Virgo II Lunar Lander in order to broaden the station's signal, as the one on top of the Washington Monument was destroyed. If successful, Galaxy News Radio can be broadcast over the rest of the Wasteland instead of it being limited to just the D.C. area.
==Notes==
* Occasionally, the P-51 Mustang may be found broken into pieces, some having landed on the floor and some floating in the air. This may be in response to the tcl command on PC, or it may be caused by weapons damage on the plane (such as a missile launcher).
* The demonstration vault's door is rolled behind the vault wall; the number is only visible through a crack; when inspected using console commands it is revealed it to be Vault 106.
* Activating the Entertainotron room display in the demonstration vault will cause the projector inside to cycle between slides. The first time it is activated, it will cycle from a "Please Stand By" slide to one displaying the GOAT test emblem, but on subsequent activations it will cycle between the GOAT emblem and a slide displaying the Vault-Tec logo.
* The room with the Virgo II is divided into two halves by a big pile of rubble that cannot be traversed from where one enters the west wing. The super mutants near the Virgo II do not spawn until the player character is near that half of the room via the various corridors leading to it.
* When fighting the super mutants in the planetarium, if one of them is injured, it will flee towards the locked gun cabinet and pull out a variety of weapons, including a missile launcher, to attack once more.
==Appearances==
The Museum of Technology appears only in Fallout 3. The same Museum of Technology posters from Fallout 3 can be found in Fallout: New Vegas in various locations, and can be built in C.A.M.P.s in Fallout 76.
==Behind the scenes==
* The museum occupies the real-world site of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum and shares similar, if not identical, exhibits.
* Level designer Jeff Browne worked on the creation of the Museum of Technology.Jbrowne's profile at the original GECK Wiki (archived)
* The narration of the Vault demonstration exhibit is voiced by Jeff Baker.
* The narration of the planetarium exhibit is voiced by Gregory Gorton. His voice delivery appears to be a pastiche of the narration style of astronomer and television presenter Carl Sagan.
* On a semicircular desk in the atrium, a number of pencils and one bottle cap are arranged to form the logo of the gaming news website Shacknews.
* A flag on the lobby balcony references a destroyed ship named Ebon Atoll, which is likely a reference to Black Isle Studios. They note it was "torpedoed" (lit. sabotaged) by a friendly.
* There is a collection of references to L.A. death/industrial metal band Fear Factory. There are two separate computer terminals, one in the lobby and one in the planetarium, where you can access the research lead's notes. The first journal entry contains notes regarding the Archetype Model FF06 Mainframe. "FF" is an abbreviation of Fear Factory. "Archetype" is the title track of their sixth album, while the lines "The infection has been removed... the soul of this machine has improved" are lyrics verbatim to the song "Archetype". Furthermore, the author of the notes, Research Lead "B. Bell" is a reference to Fear Factory's lead vocalist, Burton C. Bell.
* In the room with the lunar lander, there is a terminal that provides information about various exhibits. For the Flight Exhibit, it states that it is sponsored by Lockreed Industries. This is a reference to the Lockheed Martin Corporation a company that manufactures military aircraft.
* In the atrium on the first terminal involved in the Jiggs' Loot quest, there is a list of upcoming exhibits and presentations. Among these is information on a lecture called "Oppenheimer"s Folly" being presented by a professor R.J. Gumbie. This is a reference to a recurring group of characters on Monty Python's Flying Circus. All these characters have a first and middle initial along the lines of R.J. or R.M. and the last name Gumby, have the title of professor, wear bizarre clothing, and have very severe brain damage, leaving one to question how they got their titles in the first place. It is unknown whether the professor giving the presentation had the latter two commonalities, or if the only similarity is the name.
* The Virgo II moon landing mission's lunar lander on display in the museum illustrates the gradual divergence of the Fallout universe with the real one. The lunar lander module that we see in the game is called Valiant 11, while in the real world, it was called the Eagle and belonged to the Apollo 11 moon landing mission. Also, the design of the lander in the museum is not that of the NASA LEM (Lunar Excursion Module), but that of the Soviet LK or Lunniy Korabl (Lunar Lander). The names of the astronauts who made the first landing are also different than those in our universe.
* The date Carl Bell became the first American in space is the date of the flight of the first real American in space, Alan Shepard, aboard the Freedom 7 Mercury 3 capsule. Shepard did not orbit the earth and that his sub-orbital flight lasted only fifteen minutes. In our real-world timeline, the first human spaceflight was Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, aboard which Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made one orbit around the Earth.
==Gallery==
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Museum of Technology entrance.jpg|Entrance
MuseumTechnologyPoster.png|Poster for the museum
Museumoftechnology1.jpg|Image from the Prepare for the Future teaser site
Museumoftechnology2.jpg|Image from the Prepare for the Future teaser site
Nikola_Tesla_and_You_Museum_of_Technology.jpg|Nikola Tesla and You
Fo3 NC Quantum MoT WW.jpg|Nuka-Cola Quantum
Fo3 Stealth Boy MoT1.jpg|Stealth Boy
Fo3 Stealth Boy MoT2.jpg|Stealth Boys
Vault106.jpg|Entrance to the vault display
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Vault 106 MOT.jpg|A view on the door using 
MoTdisplayRoom3.jpg|Kitchen
MoTdisplayRoom2.jpg|Living section
MoTdisplayRoom1.jpg|G.O.A.T.
Vertibirdmodel.jpg|The XVB02 "vertibird" prototype model
Wright Flyer back.jpg|The Wright Flyer I airplane
Wright Flyer front.jpg
Fighter jet MOT.jpg|The P-51 Mustang
MoT Planetarium.jpg|The Copernicus Planetarium
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Vaultmus1.png|Sign texture file
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==See also==
* MQ02MuseumVault.txt, the dialogue for the Vault demonstration exhibit 
* MQ02Planetarium.txt, the dialogue for the planetarium exhibit 
* The Capitol Building
* Museum of History
==References==
Non-game
 
de:Technisches Museum
es:Museo de Tecnología
pl:Muzeum Technologii
ru:Технический музей
uk:Технічний музей
zh:科技博物館