JIMI HENDRIX Exhibition Coming Down In Seattle
July 4, 2007, 17 years ago
According to Seattlepi.com, The JIMI HENDRIX exhibition at Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame will be "de-installed" in August.
Museum guests can still see the exhibition through August 5, when many of the items that have been on display since 2000 will be "put in the dark" to help preserve them.
A new temporary exhibition space, approximately 5,000-square feet, will be created, giving EMP/SFM more flexibility for its exhibitions. American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music, opening October 13 and running through September 7, 2008, will be the first exhibition to be housed in the expanded space.
"Jimi's clothing and one-of-a kind drawings, paintings and lyric sheets need to be preserved; and as with any artifact, it is necessary to rest them from time to time," said Jasen Emmons, director of curatorial affairs for EMP. "Jimi Hendrix is a great inspiration for the museum and its visitors, and we will continue to keep his presence in the museum."A number of artifacts from the exhibition that are not as susceptible to light will remain on display. To honor the 40th anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival, EMP/SFM will create a display near the "If VI WAS IX: Roots and Branches" guitar sculpture with objects related to Hendrix's performance at the festival.
The display will include the red Fender Stratocaster guitar that he smashed and burned on stage, as well as posters and other objects from the historic concert. Hendrix's white Fender Stratocaster, which he played during Woodstock, will be placed in the Guitar Gallery.
Three films about Hendrix will be shown in a screening room at EMP/SFM, and oral histories from people who worked with Hendrix will be featured in the Sound and Vision: Artists Tell Their Stories exhibition.
