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Experience Music Project: Seattle's Imaginative Unmuseum |
| Section: THE ARTS / MUSIC |
| Author: Iris Brooks |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2004 |
| Size: 1,968 Words, 12,565 Characters |
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Have you ever dreamed of being a rock star? Try visiting the Experience Music Project in Seattle, where, even if you don't know how to play a musical instrument, you may live out your musical fantasies. On the grounds of the Seattle Center, home of the 1962 World's Fair, is a technologically driven musical fun house offering an odyssey at once entertaining and educational.
"We don't call ourselves a museum, because the connotation is stodgy and formal, focusing on the past. History is not our overwhelming mission; we are politically engaged in issues relevant to pop music. Music changes; so shall we," says Bob Santelli, the director of the Experience Music Project (EMP).
Although essentially a museum of popular American music, EMP is a hip, interactive institution combining interpret...
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...eight- to eighty-year-old family members.
Educational programs at EMP include school group visits, assemblies, a K-12 curriculum developed by the museum's education department, and a teacher institute, as well as a variety of conferences, workshops, music camps, concerts, and special programs. For more information about Experience Music Project's education programs, contact: Education-2765.
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