With Jim Henson’s Fantastic World coming to a close this Sunday after having its West Coast premiere at  Experience Music Project|Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (EMP|SFM) back in May, the museum’s newest exhibition will take us from puppets to outer space.

Spaced Out: The Final Frontier in Album Covers opens this Saturday, August 15 and will run until January 3, 2010. The exhibition will feature 117 album covers from the late 1940s, 50s and 60s, all with futuristic space-age themes that highlight society’s fixation on the age of space exploration, and how this obsession infiltrated numerous musical genres of the time, including pop, jazz classical and folk.

The exhibit will host several interactive features for visitors, including creating your own life-size album cover and playing instruments features on many of the albums, like the Theremin, an electronic musical instrument used to make “space sounds.”

The exhibition features album covers from the collection of Cheryl Pawelski, the Vice President of A&R at Rhino Entertainment, who said she first began collecting the albums for the music, but later noted how the imaginative nature of the sounds captured her.

Spaced Out! The Final Frontier in Album Covers will be located on the third level of the EMP galleries. Tickets range in price from $12-$15, and children under 5 get in free. To find out more, click here. (Disclosure: EMP|SFM is an advertiser on Queen Anne View).