JIMI HENDRIX Exhibition Coming Down

July 4, 2007

Gene Stout of the Seattle Post Intelligencer reports that 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 Aug. 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 Oct. 13 and running through Sept. 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."

Read more at the Seattle Post Intelligencer.

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