Talk:Experience Music Project
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By all accounts, the Experience Music Project is far cooler, and, really, who want's to go to Cleveland...
- -- Brandalone
I thought is sucked. It claims to be some sort of music museum but in fact it's more like a shrine to Jimi Hendrix. Furthermore, it lists all these "supergroups" such as Zed Zeppelin, the Beatles, and Nirvana, but I read every word in that place and I couldn't find any refrences to things like Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. The instrument thing was fun...but that's it.
I thought it was dumb, in that it made waaay too big a deal out of crude technology.
I frequently felt that just a good use of visual language on a placard would have been a lot better than making you carry around a box and point just so, in order to hear about a particular thing.
I dunno- it made me feel almost like it'd be better to have just watched a multi-media presentation at home on the web. Just pop open a web browser, search around.
I guess museums will have to focus on things that you cannot get at home, such as the artifacts, and on interactive experiences.
Of all the criticism I have for the EMP, the coolest stuff was where you could actually do something, like in the band room, where you can play with lots of different instruments.
It's really fun to take the lessons from the different instruments. Very nice.
Don't get me started on The Seattle Center science center, whatever it's called. ;)
- -- Lion Kimbro
I would not go so far as to say it sucks. After all, it was ORIGINALLY created for, as stated in another post, "a shrine to Hendrix".
And--again--as stated in another post, you really don't need to "carry around a box and point" just to enjoy whats going on. Just enter each entertainer's section--the visual and audio does the rest.
I had a blast, so I feel the only way to get your own opinion is to try and "experience" it yourself.