The colourful building
Rippling metal panels.
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The Museum of Pop Culture, known as MoPOP, is a museum of popular culture at Seattle Center in Seattle, Washington, beside the Space Needle and about 2.1 km in a straight line north-west of downtown. It was founded in 2000 by Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, as the Experience Music Project, and took its present name in 2016. The building was designed by the architect Frank Gehry: a rippling mass of curved shapes clad in thousands of stainless steel and painted aluminium panels in red, gold, silver, blue and purple, said to evoke smashed electric guitars. The Seattle Center Monorail runs right through it. Inside, exhibitions cover rock and pop music, with a strong focus on Seattle musicians such as Jimi Hendrix and Nirvana, along with science fiction, fantasy and video games. In the Sound Lab visitors can play guitars, drums and keyboards and record themselves, and a huge hall has a giant screen and hosts concerts. Allow two to three hours. The Space Needle and the Chihuly Garden and Glass are a few steps away.
Rippling metal panels.
Play and record.
Runs through the building.
Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington, United States
Two to three hours.
The Space Needle.
