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The EMP in collaboration with ] operates the ] (SFFSFF). ] takes place annually every winter in ], ] at the world renowned ] Theater. The festival brings together industry professionals in filmmaking and the genres of science fiction and fantasy to encourage and support new, creative additions to science fiction and fantasy cinema arts. The EMP in collaboration with ] operates the ] (SFFSFF). ] takes place annually every winter in ], ] at the world renowned ] Theater. The festival brings together industry professionals in filmmaking and the genres of science fiction and fantasy to encourage and support new, creative additions to science fiction and fantasy cinema arts.


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The museum contains mostly ] memorabilia and technology-intensive multimedia displays. The EMP Museum showcases rare artifacts from popular music history and allows the visitor to experience music through interactive exhibitions like Sound Lab and On Stage. The Northwest passage was dedicated to the history of Seattle music, including ], ], and the ] ].

===Collections===
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''Northwest Passage'' was formerly part of the permanent collection. It contained exhibits on the history of popular music in the ]. Exhibits include ] (]), ] (]), ] (]), ] (]), ] (Seattle, Washington), ] (], via Seattle), and ] (]) . Also included are some less famous artists including ] (]) and Culprit, and bands far more obscure, such as ] (]). Numerous video clips show interviews and performance footage, and extensive commentary and additional recordings are available via iPod audio guides (specially programmed iPods that can be rented, for a fee, from a desk on the second floor). In April, 2011 The Northwest Passage was de-installed to make room for the Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses exhibit.

''The Guitar Gallery'' is dedicated to the history of the guitar. The massive sculpture entitled ''If VI Was IX: Roots and Branches'' was conceived by UK exhibit designer Neal Potter and developed by ] and made largely out of musical instruments, especially guitars, which are played by electronically controlled devices. ''The Sound Lab'' allows museum-goers to learn the basics of playing various instruments and ''On Stage'' features a simulated onstage experience.

EMP introduced a travelling collection exhibit in 2002 entitled ]. It remained in Seattle, WA for one year, then in 2003 it moved to the ] in ] and in 2004 to the ]. It has since been retired.

===Past exhibitions<ref>All exhibition information from EMP Museum Web site </ref>===

;Temporary exhibitions

*''Jimi Hendrix: An Evolution of Sound:'' On-going;
Exhibit illustrates Hendrix's musical evolution from his early days in Seattle, to his time as a journeyman musician touring the southern "chitlin' circuit" and in New York City, to his explosion on the popular music scene in London and beyond.

*''Reflections: The Mary Wilson Supreme Legacy Collection'': Through September 6, 2010;
A collection of more than fifty costumes worn by the Supremes.

;Past exhibitions

*''Artist to Icon: Early Photographs of Elvis, Dylan, and the Beatles:'' January 19, 2001 – May 1, 2001;
The exhibition includes 48 black-and-white photographs by five photographers. The photos, taken between 1956 and 1965 show early moments from Elvis, Bob Dylan, and The Beatles.

*''Disco: A Decade of Saturday Night:'' February 2003 – October 2003

*''Nirvana:'' April 2003 – October 2004;
Chronicles the first half of Nirvana’s career from 1987–1990, among the collection was rare 1990 footage of the band in Olympia, Washington, including Dave Grohl's first appearance as their drummer.

*''Milestones:'' April 2003 – October 2004;
Featured a series of interconnected exhibitions celebrating diverse expressions of creativity and the independent spirit of rock 'n' roll. Highlights included the roots of rock, a focus on three key innovators—Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Janis Joplin.

*''Paper Scissors ROCK: 25 Years of Northwest Punk Poster Design:'' May 2003- September 2003;
This exhibit explored the last 25 years of music-related poster art from the Pacific Northwest.

*''Jimi Hendrix:'' June 7, 2003 – August 5, 2007

*''Sweet Home Chicago, Big City Blues, 1946-1966 Traveling Exhibition:'' September 2003 - January 2004

*''Annie Leibovitz:'' November 2003 - January 2004

*''Springsteen - Troubadour of the Highway:'' January 2004- April 2004

*''Costumes from the Vault:'' June 2004- January 2007;
This exhibit featured costumes and clothing from a variety of musicians, superheroes and science-fiction stars. Included were Michael Jackson’s sequined jacket and jeweled glove, Jimi Hendrix’s “psychedelic dandy” outfit, and the Superman costume from the original television series.

*''Beatlemania! America Meets the Beatles, 1964:'' February 2004- December 2005

*''Songcraft: The Art & Craft of Songwriting:'' July 2004-January 2006

*''Bob Dylan’s American Journey, 1956-1966:'' November 2004 – October 2006

*''Yes Yes Y’all: The First Decade of Hip-Hop:'' June 18, 2005 - January 6, 2008

*''Art of Modern Rock: The Poster Explosion:'' May 2006 - October 2006

*''Disney: The Music Behind the Magic:'' November 4, 2006 - September 9, 2007

*''American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music:'' October 13, 2007 - September 7, 2008;
The first interpretive museum exhibition to tell the story of the profound influence and impact of Latinos in American popular music. The exhibition was created in partnership with guest curators from the University of Washington.

*''Message to Love: Remembering and Reclaiming:'' January 26, 2008 - April 6, 2008;
Jimi Hendrix exhibit focused on the visitor’s experience and the visitor connection with Hendrix.

*''American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print:'' October 11, 2008- July 16, 2009;
Features the work of one of the nation's oldest operating printing shops—Nashville, Tennessee's Hatch Show Print—the exhibition highlights the uniquely American posters produced to advertise everything from vaudeville shows, state fairs and stock car races to the Grand Ole Opry, Elvis Presley and Herbie Hancock.


==Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame== ==Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame==

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View of the EMP Museum from the Seattle Center with the monorail traveling through it
Monorail tracks going through the EMP/SFM building

The EMP Museum (formerly known as Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame or EMP|SFM) is a museum dedicated to the history and exploration of popular music, science fiction and pop culture located in Seattle, Washington. The Frank Gehry-designed museum building is located on the campus of the Seattle Center, adjacent to the Space Needle and the Seattle Center Monorail, which runs through the building.

The EMP Museum was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and opened its doors in 2000. EMP struggled financially in its early years; as a result, Allen established the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (SFM), which opened in 2004 in the south wing of the EMP building. When SFM opened, EMP and SFM were treated as separate museums, and visitors had the option of purchasing admission to one museum, or, at a higher cost, a combined admission to both. In 2007, after mounting criticism, EMP|SFM ended the separate admissions policy and began charging a single admission price for entrance to both the EMP and SFM wings. Although the Science Fiction Museum as a permanent collection was de-installed in March 2011, a new exhibit named "Icons of Science Fiction" is scheduled to open in June 2012.

EMP has provided funding for radio station KEXP in partnership with the University of Washington. EMP was also the site of the demo and concert program for the first international conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME-01) and the Pop Conference, an annual gathering of academics, critics, musicians and music buffs.

The EMP in collaboration with SIFF operates the Science Fiction Fantasy Short Film Festival (SFFSFF). Sffsff takes place annually every winter in Seattle, Washington at the world renowned Seattle Cinerama Theater. The festival brings together industry professionals in filmmaking and the genres of science fiction and fantasy to encourage and support new, creative additions to science fiction and fantasy cinema arts.

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Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame

The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame is one of two public science fiction museums in the world (along with Maison d'Ailleurs, a science fiction museum in Yverdon-les-Bains in Switzerland). The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame was founded by Paul Allen and Jody Patton and opened to the public on June 18, 2004. Members of the museum's advisory board include Steven Spielberg, Ray Bradbury (Formerly), James Cameron, and George Lucas. Among its collection of artifacts are Captain Kirk's command chair from Star Trek, the B9 robot from Lost in Space, the Death Star model from Star Wars, the T800 Terminator and the dome from the film Silent Running. The X Prize trophy is currently on display in the museum's lobby.

The museum was divided into several galleries with a common theme such as "Homeworld," "Fantastic Voyages," "Brave New Worlds" and "Them!". Each gallery displays related memorabilia (movie props, first editions, costumes and models) in large display cases, posters, and interactive displays to sketch out the different subjects. "From robots to jet packs to space suits and ray guns, it's all here."

The EMP Museum is currently hosting a special exhibition that opened on October 23, 2010 on Battlestar Galactica, with original props and cast members as guest speakers. On June 4, 2011, the EMP Museum opened Avatar: The Exhibition, housed in the former SFM wing of the building.

Past exhibitions

  • Alien Encounters: September 10, 2006 - October 30, 2007 Featured 33 original paintings of artists’ envisions of aliens over the past 70 years. Artists included Frank Kelly Freas and Ed Emshwiller.
  • Out of this World: Extraordinary Costumes from Film and Television: June 16, 2007 - September 30, 2007 Featured costumes from Star Wars, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and many more of the most popular films and television shows of all time.
  • Innersphere: Sculptural Works by Rik Allen: November 17, 2007 - April 27, 2008 Featured glass and metal sculptural rocket ships symbolizing journeys of outward exploration and inward discovery by Washington artist Rik Allen
  • Jim Henson's Fantastic World: May 23-August 16, 2009

Jim Henson (1936–1990)—artist, puppeteer, film director and producer—created elaborate imaginary worlds filled with unique characters, objects, environments and even languages and cultures. His work is enjoyed in dozens of languages in more than 100 countries. Jim Henson's Fantastic World offers a rare peek into the imagination and creative genius of this multitalented innovator and creator of Kermit the Frog, Big Bird and other beloved characters.

  • Robots: A Designer's Collection of Miniature Mechanical Marvels: May 16, 2008 - May 3, 2009 A Collection from designer Tom Geismar. Inspired by antique tin and wooden toys, samurai warriors and mid-20th century Japanese film characters.

Science Fiction Hall of Fame

The Hall of Fame was founded as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1996 by the Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society (Kansas City, Missouri) and the Center for the Study of Science Fiction (CSSF) at the University of Kansas (KU). The Chairmen were Keith Stokes (1996–2001) and Robin Wayne Bailey (2002–present). Only authors were eligible for recognition and four were inducted annually. The induction ceremony was part of CSSF's annual Campbell Conference at KU.

The Hall of Fame stopped inducting fantasy authors in 2004 when it moved to Seattle and became part of the Science Fiction Museum. Having inducted 36 authors in nine years, in 2005 it began to recognize non-literary media and reduced the number of authors from four to two in each annual class. Five people were honored in 2008: Ian Ballantine, Betty Ballantine, and three others.

As of fall 2011, there are 65 members. Nominations and inductions are made in four categories: Film, Literature, Media, and Open.

Science Fiction Hall of Fame Inductees
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Founders Circle at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame

Architecture

Design by Frank Gehry.

The structure itself was designed by Frank Gehry, and resembles many of his firm's other works in its sheet-metal construction, such as Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Walt Disney Concert Hall and Gehry Tower. Much of the building material is exposed in the building's interior. The building contains 140,000 square feet (13,000 m), with a 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m) footprint. The central "Sky Church" room pays homage to Jimi Hendrix and other rock 'n' roll icons using a 40-foot (12 m) high, 70-foot (21 m) wide video screen and an 18-panel montage of images. The last structural steel beam to be put in place bears the signatures of all construction workers who were on site on the day it was erected. Hoffman Construction Company of Portland, Oregon was the general contractor.

Even before groundbreaking, Seattle Weekly said the design could refer to "the often quoted comparison to a smashed electric guitar." Indeed, Gehry himself had made the comparison, "We started collecting pictures of Stratocasters, bringing in guitar bodies, drawing on those shapes in developing our ideas." The architecture was greeted by Seattle residents with a mixture of acclaim for Gehry and derision for this particular edifice. "Frank Gehry," remarked British-born, Seattle-based writer Jonathan Raban, "has created some wonderful buildings, like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, but his Seattle effort, the Experience Music Project, is not one of them." New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp described it as "something that crawled out of the sea, rolled over, and died." Forbes magazine called it one of the world's 10 ugliest buildings. Others describe it as a "blob" or call it "The Hemorrhoids".

Despite some critical reviews of the structure, the building has been called “a fitting backdrop for the world's largest collection of Jimi Hendrix memorabilia.” The outside of the building which features a fusion of textures and colors, including gold, silver, deep red, blue and a "shimmering purple haze," has been declared "an apt representation of the American rock experience."

Finances

The Sky church.

The museum has had mixed financial success.

In an effort to raise more funds, museum organizers used Allen's extensive art collection to create a 2006 exhibit within the confines of the EMP. The exhibit, which had nothing to do with either music or science fiction, was entitled DoubleTake: From Monet to Lichtenstein. The exhibit included Roy Lichtenstein's The Kiss (1962), Pierre-Auguste Renoir's The Reader (1877), Vincent van Gogh's Orchard with Peach Trees in Blossom (1888), Pablo Picasso's Four Bathers (1921) and several works of art from Claude Monet including one of the Water Lilies paintings (1919) and The Mula Palace (1908). There have also been repeated lay-offs of museum staff in an attempt to cut costs.

A subsequent exhibit — Sound and Vision: Artists Tell Their Stories, which opened February 28, 2007 — had far more connection to the museums' missions. The first exhibit at the complex to bring together both music and science fiction in a single exhibit, Sound and Vision draws on the EMP Museum's collections of oral history recordings.

References

  1. Haley Edwards, "EMP and SFM slash their ticket price", Seattle Times, March 14, 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-24.
  2. DeRoche, Jeff (April 12, 2001 – April 18, 2001). "Radio Ga-Ga". The Stranger. Retrieved 2006-11-24. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. The New York Times Review. SFM. http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/north-america/united-states/washington/seattle/attraction-detail.html?vid=1154654608959
  4. "Jim Henson's Fantastic World". EMP Museum: Past Exhibitions. empmuseum.org.
  5. ^ "Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame" (official website to 2004). Retrieved 2012-04-25.
  6. "Science Fiction Hall of Fame" (official website 2011). Retrieved 2012-04-25.
  7. Benedetti, Winda (2000-06-22). "The Sky Church: A sanctuary for rock disciples". Seattle PI. Retrieved 2007-06-19.
  8. Roger Downey, Experience This!, Seattle Weekly, February 18, 1998. Retrieved 2006-10-22.
  9. ^ Raban, Jonathan (April 4, 2004). "Deference to nature keeps Seattle from becoming world-class city]". Seattle Times. Retrieved 2006-11-24. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  10. ^ Barnett, Erica C. (June 17, 2004 – June 23, 2004). "EMPty". The Stranger. Retrieved 2006-11-24. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  11. Cheek, Lawrence W. (September 26, 2006). "On Architecture: Corrugated steel is a nice wrinkle". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved 2006-11-26. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  12. Fodor's. "Experience Music Project Review". http://www.fodors.com/world/north-america/usa/washington/seattle/review-105822.html
  13. Enlow, Clair. Frank Gehry Rock Temple. Architecture Week. http://www.architectureweek.com/2000/0712/index.html
  14. Skelton, Lauren. "EMP: Experience Music Project." Seattle.Net. http://www.seattle.net/entertainment/seattlemusic/musicarticles/emp/
  15. John Cook, Recent layoffs at local companies: Experience Music Project, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 8, 2002. Retrieved 2006-10-22.
  16. Associated Press story, Experience Music Project still struggling five years later, USA Today, March 22, 2005. Retrieved 2006-10-22.
  17. Sheila Farr, Paul Allen's Experience Art Project, Seattle Times, November 29, 2005. Retrieved 2006-10-22.
  18. Full List of Works Announced for Upcoming DoubleTake: From Monet to Lichtenstein Exhibition, press release on the exhibit's official site, March 21, 2006. Retrieved 2006-10-22.
  19. A Legacy of Sound and Vision: The EMP Oral History Program, EMP site. Retrieved 2007-03-04.

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