Museum of Pop Culture
- Architect
- Frank Gehry
- Year
- 2004
- City
- Seattle, WA
The Museum of Pop Culture (MOPOP) was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2000 as the Experience Music Project, housed in a Frank Gehry-designed building whose sculptural, metal-clad form gave it a landmark presence at Seattle Center. Since then the museum has organized dozens of exhibits, 17 of which have toured the United States and internationally.
the building
A museum, renamed three times. MOPOP has gone by several names since 2000: Experience Music Project, then Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (EMP|SFM), then EMP Museum, before adopting its current name in November 2016.
Sound Off! and Pop Conference. The museum runs 'Sound Off!,' an annual battle-of-the-bands competition for musicians 21 and under that supports the local all-ages music scene, and 'Pop Conference,' an annual gathering of academics, critics, and musicians. Since 2007 it has also presented the Founders Award to recording artists for their contributions.
the architect
Frank Gehry (1929-2025) was a Canadian-American architect, born in Toronto.
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