The Experience Music Project is set to honor one of Seattle’s most celebrated and loved bands when it unveils the Nirvana: Taking Punk to The Masses exhibition on April 16th. The week long exhibition will be “world’s most extensive exhibition of memorabilia celebrating the music and history of Seattle grunge luminaries, Nirvana.” It is said to include rare artifacts from the band as well as their crew and families.
Highlights of the exhibition include:
Kurt Cobain’s never-before exhibited, high school painting of two aging, Reagan-era punks in the post-apocalypse, informally known as “punk American gothic.”
The Teac reel-to-reel tape machine owned by Mari Earl, Cobain’s aunt, on which a young Kurt recorded material for his early bands, Organized Confusion and Fecal Matter.
Cobain’s handwritten lyrics for Nirvana songs including “Spank Thru” and “Floyd the Barber.”
Numerous instruments, including pieces of the first guitar Cobain destroyed onstage (a Univox Hi-Flyer); Dave Grohl’s Tama Rockstar-Pro drum kit; and Krist Novoselic’s Guild acoustic bass guitar and Buck Owens American acoustic guitar used during the recording of “MTV Unplugged.”
The yellow cardigan worn often by Cobain between 1991 and 1994.
The winged angel stage prop featured on Nirvana’s In Utero tour.
Scores of candid snapshots capturing the band’s early years, from their beginnings in Aberdeen, Washington to the media frenzy that erupted after Nevermind.
Interactives that will allow guests to dive deeper into the history of the band as well as allow guests to make their own mark by including their own personal stories.
visit The Experience Music Project to learn more about the exhibition, win a free to trip to Seattle, and submit your own Nirvana memorabilia.