Every month on the first Thursday, many of Seattle’s museums have free admission. Emily and I have been talking for a few weeks about taking advantage of these opportunities and so this Thursday we did.
We visited the Experience Music Project. The EMP is a rock music museum created by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, located at the foot of the Space Needle. The strange building that hosts the collections of famous guitars is supposed to look like a smashed guitar. Personally, I think it looks more like a misshapen organ with tumorous growths.
It was really neat to see Kurt Cobain’s Stratocaster and look at many of the relics of rock and rollers both from Seattle (like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam etc) and around the world. Sorry, I wasn’t allowed to take pictures in any of the exhibit areas.
Anyhow it was a nice little evening trip.
I’ve always been meaning to tour that museum. Thanks for the tip about free admission. I’ll have to look into that.
My family strictly visits museums on free days. The crowds are generally much more dense, but it saves money. There is a fairly good natural history museum in Denver and funny little bug museum in Colorado Springs. No music museums though…
So when are you going to post the pictures of the exhibits?