( CNN ) After decades in private hands , a spaceship from the classic film `` 2001 : A Space Odyssey '' will go on display for the first time to the public . The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , the group that presents the Oscars , purchased the spacecraft at auction Saturday for $ 344,000 . The academy will display the ship in its museum of movie history , scheduled to open in 2017 in Los Angeles . `` We 're excited to add such an iconic piece of movie history to our collection , '' the academy told CNN in a statement . `` We look forward to sharing the '2001 ' Aries 1B Trans-Lunar Space Shuttle with the public once the Academy Museum opens . '' In case you 're wondering , the craft is the spherical lunar lander that transports Dr. Heywood R. Floyd to the moon in `` 2001 . '' Sorry , it 's not the Discovery One , the spaceship where mission pilot Dave Bowman later famously implored the ship 's computer to `` open the pod bay doors , HAL . '' A collector and former art teacher in the UK had kept it for the past 40 years . According to the auction house , the spaceship is one of the few sets left from the 1968 film . Almost all the props , sets , models and costumes from `` 2001 : A Space Odyssey '' were destroyed by director Stanley Kubrick so they could not be used in other productions , the Premiere Props auction house said .
A shuttle from `` 2001 : A Space Odyssey '' was purchased by the Academy Museum . It will be put on display to the public for the first time . The 1968 classic is considered one of the most influential science-fiction movies ever .