Experience Music Project Museum

Dedicated to popular music, the museum opened in 2000 beside the city’s elevated monorail, which passes straight through the building.

Its swelling volumes are clad in thousands of stainless steel and painted aluminium shingles in gold, silver, purple and red, a form the architect related to the energy of rock music and the shapes of broken guitars. Inside, the curving shells open into a large performance hall and galleries, including a towering sculpture made of hundreds of guitars.