Tear the roof off the sucka…the Mothership is bout to turn this mother out! The Mothership at the Smithsonian, WHAT!

The Mothership — the iconic stage prop made famous by legendary funk collective Parliament-Funkadelic — has been acquired by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture where it will help anchor a permanent music exhibition when the museum opens its doors in 2015.

“I’m about to cry!” Parliament-Funkadelic frontman George Clinton said over the phone from his home in Tallahassee on Wednesday. “They’re taking the Mothership! They’re shipping it out! . . . But I’m glad it’s going to have a nice home there.”

Let us in we’ll turn this mother out!!

Smithsonian acquires Parliament-Funkadelic Mothership – The Washington Post.