Tag: Music

Fire in Aberdeen Museum destroys Kurt Cobain artefacts

This past Saturday, June 9, a fire broke out at the Aberdeen Museum of History in Washington state. The museum had housed various Kurt Cobain artefacts, including a couch he slept on, photographs, and more. The fire destroyed most of the museum’s main and second floors, but archivists hope to salvage thousands of documents,…
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14th June 2018
Van Gogh Alive in Athens

Van Gogh Alive – The Experience will stretch the definition of the word ‘exhibition’ as it stimulates the senses and opens the mind. And there’s no need to worry about the kids getting bored – the exhibition caters perfectly to both young and old. Traditions of tiptoeing through unnervingly silent galleries and viewing paintings from…
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15th November 2017
‘David Bowie is’ travels to Brooklyn for final show

Organized with unprecedented access to David Bowie’s personal archive, this exhibition explores the creative process of an artist whose sustained reinventions, innovative collaborations, and bold characterizations revolutionized the way we see music, inspiring people to shape their own identities while challenging social traditions. David Bowie is has been touring globally for the past five years…
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18th October 2017
Watch 360° video from inside Roland’s Synth Museum

Warning: This will make you want more synths. The Roland Museum in Japan just uploaded a 360° virtual tour of their synth dept. Its collection includes some of the most important electronic music instruments of the past 45 years. The tour itself is really fun to use. You can control how you navigate your…
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13th March 2017
Punks at the Museum of London

Punks (1 October 2016 – 15 January 2017) tells the story of one of music’s most explosive genres from the people who were there. From the handmade mixtape sleeves and DIY fanzines, to the radical clothes sold on the King’s Road, this exhibition displays the personal objects and tells the stories of ordinary punks of the…
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4th November 2016
The Taylor Swift Experience opens in New York

The Grammy Museum announced the opening of The Taylor Swift Experience (18 Nov 2016 – 19 Feb 2017) in New York’s Seaport District. Opening on November 18th, 2016, this will mark the first major exhibit opening for The Taylor Swift Experience on the East Coast following its record-setting Los Angeles showing. Having originally debuted at the Grammy Museum in…
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2nd November 2016
Prince’s Paisley Park home to open as museum

Prince’s Paisley Park home and studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota, has permanently opened for public tours, following unanimous approval by the Chanhassen City Council on October 24th, 2016. Tour dates for 2017 are expected to go on sale by mid-November 2016. Paisley Park is Prince’s extraordinary private estate and production complex in Chanhassen, Minnesota. Fans will…
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1st November 2016
You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970 launches

You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970, the V&A Museum‘s next major exhibition, will explore the era-defining significance and impact of the late 1960s, expressed through some of the greatest music and performances of the 20th century alongside fashion, film, design and political activism. More than 200 LPs from the collection of the late…
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28th October 2016