The Grammy Museum will supply free normal admission for anybody 17 and underneath beginning Jan. 25. The Los Angeles museum is hoping the transfer will encourage extra younger folks to discover its three flooring of interactive music-based reveals and collections.
“The Grammy Museum has at all times been dedicated to extend entry to music schooling by reaching underserved communities the place entry to our Museum and programming might make a big impact,” mentioned Michael Sticka, Grammy Museum President and CEO. “Waiving admission for teenagers 17 and underneath will go a good distance in direction of reaching that objective.” Sticka only in the near past renewed his contract to function president till 2029.
The Stengaard Gross Household Schooling Initiative made the free admission potential with a donation to the Marketing campaign For Music Schooling, a fundraising marketing campaign launched in 2022 whose major targets are to get rid of the monetary restrictions surrounding music schooling.
Extra funds raised by the Marketing campaign For Music Schooling will go in direction of the museum’s schooling and neighborhood applications resembling Grammy Camp, Grammy In The Colleges and the Quinn Coleman Scholarship Fund. The Marketing campaign For Music Schooling is co-chaired by Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Shawn Mendes, and RosalĂa, amongst others.
Because of the Marketing campaign For Music Schooling, the Museum will unveil Sonic Playground, a brand new hands-on everlasting exhibit opening subsequent month. That includes 17 music-making interactives, Sonic Playground is designed for guests of all ages, no matter their expertise or data, to be playful and inventive by music.
The museum has hosted particular reveals on the careers of superstars from Shakira to BTS, Amy Winehouse, Katy Perry and extra. It’s at present exhibiting reveals on Luther Vandross, photographer Jay Blakesberg and extra.
