Museum & Gallery
Fan bids to make Cobain’s childhood home a museum
Twenty years since his tragic death, Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain could be immor- talised in a museum at his former home, a site the local Mayor hopes could become as big as Elvis Presley attraction Graceland. Aſter the grunge star’s childhood home
in Aberdeen, Washington, US, went up for sale, fan and journalist Jaime Dunkle launched a crowd funding campaign to raise US$700,000 (€508,000, £421,000) to buy the house and turn it into a museum. Dunkle is determined to ensure the spirit of the band is preserved by saving the house from “the clutches of capitalist greed.” Details:
http://lei.sr?a=n8Z7k
Bill Shankly museum in pipeline
Following the opening of the Titanic hotel in Liverpool, UK, the company behind it has proposed plans to rede- velop the council-owned Millennium House to become a Bill Shankly-themed apar- thotel and museum for around £15m ($25m, €18.1m). Signature Living is pro-
posing a 250-bedroom hotel, complete with a museum ded- icated to Shankly and 17,500sq ſt (1,625sq m) of office space. Te building would house
Signature Living’s head office, while the Lifestyles Gym cur- rently based in the property would undergo an expan- sion and be leased back by the council, under the proposals. Bill Shankly was a Scottish
footballer and coach, best known for his time managing
Shankly is regarded as one of the greatest football managers of all time
Liverpool, which he lead to 11 titles during his run as a man- ager in the 1960s and 70s. “Liverpool’s sporting heri-
tage is celebrated throughout the world, but we don’t have a major football attraction in
the city centre,” said Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson. Construction would begin
in early 2015 with the scheme set for completion by March 2016 if planning is approved. Details:
http://lei.sr?a=Q6e5Q
Civil Rights Museum gets $27.5m revamp Tiananmen Square, scene of the 1989 massacre
Tiananmen Square protest museum opens in Hong Kong
The world’s first museum about the Tiananmen Square massacre has opened in Hong Kong, sparking controversy. Commemorating the pro-democracy pro-
testers killed in Beijing in 1989, the museum is funded by the Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. Te 74sq m (797sq ſt) permanent exhi-
bition, in East Tsim Sha Tsui, will display images from the protests and the military crackdown, as well as a replica statue of the Goddess of Democracy, which was originally erected at Tiananmen Square by protesters. However, the controversial project could
run into a legal battle, with the owners of the office tower in which it is housed threatening to take action. Tey say the museum violates the property deed and because of its political nature, could cause nuisance to tenants. Te alliance bought the fiſth floor of the office building for US$1.25m (€903,146, £744,443) in December 2013. The Chinese govern- ment has prohibited all forms of discussion or remembrance of the events in mainland China, but Hong Kong falls outside this ban. Details:
http://lei.sr?a=f2t7B
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America’s National Civil Rights Museum, the con- verted motel where Martin Luther King Jr was assassi- nated, reopened its doors in April – the day after the 46th anniversary of King’s death – following an exten- sive redevelopment. Te Memphis, US museum
has undergone a US$27.5m (€20m, £16.8m) renovation – the culmination of 18-months’ construction, led by architect firm Self+Tucker – to com- plete the remodelling of the 23-year-old attraction. Now boasting 52,000sq
ſt (4,831sq m) of exhibition space, the museum features many poignant historical replicas, including one of the buses Rosa Parks sat on, touch screen displays and extensive amounts of archival footage from the civil rights era. The wide range of inter-
active features reflect what curators have described as the need to target people who are “more likely to reach for an iPad than a history book”.
Rosa Parks’ protest sparking the Montgomery bus boycott is featured Exhibitions take visitors on
a journey through the civil rights struggle, starting with the slave trade and the noto- rious middle passage along which enslaved Africans were shipped across the Atlantic in horrendous conditions. Te museum features a rep-
lica of the slave ship galley, where visitors can experi- ence the cramped conditions the shackled slaves were sub- jected to during their journey.
“Visitors will learn about some of the lesser known civil rights leaders through oral histories and new emo- tionally charged, multi-user, multi-touch interactives and visually compelling exhibi- tions,” said museum president Beverly Robertson. About 200,000 people
visit the museum each year – including between 50,000 to 60,000 school children. Details:
http://lei.sr?a=c4c6N
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