Museum of Pop Culture
The Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) is a popular music museum in Seattle . It was donated by Paul Allen , the co-founder of Microsoft , as the Experience Music Project (EMP or EMP Museum) and is located on the Seattle Center campus in the vicinity of the city's landmark, the Space Needle . The EMP was opened in 2000. It has had its current name since November 2016.
architecture
The building was designed by the architect Frank Gehry and its shape is reminiscent of other buildings by the architect, such as the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao , the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Gehry Tower . The shape was described as a "melted electric guitar" in a Seattle Weekly article . The comparison came from Gehry himself, who explained the design process: "We started collecting pictures of Stratocasters , bringing guitar bodies and using these shapes to develop our ideas."
criticism
The response from experts and the press was rather negative. The architecture critic of the New York Times , Herbert Muschamp , described the building as "something that crawled out of the sea, turned around and died." The Forbes Magazine led the building in a list of the ten ugliest in the world. The building will also jokingly referred to as the population The Blob (dt. The Blob) (see also blob architecture ) or The Hemorrhoids (dt. Hemorrhoid ), respectively.
use
The building was originally designed as the Jimi Hendrix Museum. The museum mainly exhibits rock music items and uses innovative multimedia technology to present them. The building houses the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and, in cooperation with the University of Washington , the radio station KEXP .
Trivia
Several images of the EMP are included as a desktop background in Microsoft Windows 7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Experience Music Project gets new name: MoPOP. King5.com, November 15, 2016.
- ↑ Roger Downey: Experience This! ( Memento from November 17, 2017 on the Internet Archive ) Seattle Weekly, February 18, 1998.
- ↑ EMPty. The Experience Music Project is a flop on all fronts. The Stranger June 17, 2004.
- ↑ The World's Ugliest Buildings. Forbes Magazine , May 3, 2002 ( list of buildings available here ).
- ^ On Architecture: Corrugated steel is a nice wrinkle. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 26, 2006.
- ^ Deference to nature keeps Seattle from becoming world-class city. Seattle Times , April 4, 2004.
Web links
- Museum of Pop Culture (English)
- The Experience Music Project as a 3D model in SketchUp's 3D warehouse
- Rock'n'Roll in cyberspace. Review in Spiegel online , June 19, 2000
Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '18 " N , 122 ° 20' 54" W.