Museum · Seattle Center
Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP)
325 5th Avenue N, Seattle 98109
MoPOP is a museum of popular music, film, games and fan culture, housed in a colourful Frank Gehry building at Seattle Center under the Space Needle. Galleries cover Nirvana and Seattle music, science fiction and horror, with rotating exhibitions and a small concert and screening program.
Permanent exhibitions
- Galleries on popular music, with an eye on Seattle and the Pacific Northwest
- Science fiction, fantasy and horror in film, books and games
- Sky Church, the main hall with its giant LED screen
- IF VI WAS IX, a towering sculpture made of hundreds of guitars
- Sound Lab, hands-on instruments and recording booths