Celebration of Nirvana’s Nevermind album worth the drive to the Seattle Center
Published 1:30 am Friday, September 23, 2016
EMP will mark the 25th anniversary of the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind album with special programming Sept. 24 at the Seattle Center.
Music critics generally agree that the 1991 album transformed the musical landscape and focused the world on Seattle as the epicenter of popular punk-rooted alternative music culture.
Fans are invited to celebrate with gallery tours of Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses, a special viewing of Kurt Cobain’s left-handed Sunburst Stratocaster and a rare recorded interview with the band and concert footage presented inside EMP’s Sky Church. EMP offers $5 off general admission tickets for visitors who wear Nirvana gear or show a ticket stub from one of the band’s concerts. Access to the Sky Church section of the museum will be free to the public on Saturday only.
Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses features more than 200 Nevermind artifacts including original album cover concept art, photos from the Nevermind recording sessions, the Black Fender Stratocaster electric guitar smashed by Kurt Cobain during the recording of “Endless, Nameless,” a cardigan worn by Kurt Cobain, the MTV Video Music Award for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and more. The exhibit also contains more than 100 oral histories from key figures in the independent music scene of the late 1980s and early ’90s.
Tours run throughout the day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. For more information, go to www.empmuseum.org.
Other current exhibits at EMP include those on Star Trek, science fiction and fantasy, Nintendo’s game revolution, horror films, Jimi Hendrix abroad and Pearl Jam and the art of the screen-printed poster.
