The Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP)

The Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP)is a leading-edge, non-profit museum, dedicated to the ideas and risk-taking that fuel contemporary popular culture. With its roots in rock and roll,MoPOP serves as a gateway museum, reaching multigenerational audiences through our collections, exhibitions and educational programs, using interactive technologies to engage and empower our visitors. AtMoPOP, artists, audiences and ideas converge, bringing understanding, interpretation and scholarship to the popular culture of our time Since opening its doors in 2000,MoPOP has welcomed more than five million visitors, and has been a key economic driver among Seattle nonprofit arts and culture organizations, with institutional expenditures and audience-member spending resulting in more than six million dollars of local economic impact. Through dynamic programs, cutting-edge technology, and interpretative, interactive exhibitions focused on American popular culture, MoPOP seeks to engage museum visitors in critical thinking about creativity in contemporary society by educating and inspiring a range of visitors of different ages, interests, and experiences.

MoPOP is dedicated to the exploration of creativity and innovation in popular music. By blending interpretative, interactive exhibitions with cutting-edge technology, MoPOP captures and reflects the essence of rock ?n? roll, its roots in jazz, soul, gospel, country and the blues, as well as rock?s influence on hip-hop, punk and other recent genres. Visitors can view rare artifacts and memorabilia and experience the creative process by listening to musicians tell their own stories.