The Grammy Museum will provide free basic admission for anybody 17 and below beginning Jan. 25. The Los Angeles museum is hoping the transfer will encourage extra younger individuals to discover its three flooring of interactive music-based displays and collections.
“The Grammy Museum has all the time been dedicated to extend entry to music training by reaching underserved communities the place entry to our Museum and programming may make a huge effect,” stated Michael Sticka, Grammy Museum President and CEO. “Waiving admission for teenagers 17 and below will go a great distance in direction of attaining that objective.” Sticka only recently renewed his contract to function president till 2029.
The Stengaard Gross Household Training Initiative made the free admission doable with a donation to the Marketing campaign For Music Training, a fundraising marketing campaign launched in 2022 whose main goals are to get rid of the monetary restrictions surrounding music training.
Further funds raised by the Marketing campaign For Music Training will go in direction of the museum’s training and neighborhood packages akin to Grammy Camp, Grammy In The Colleges and the Quinn Coleman Scholarship Fund. The Marketing campaign For Music Training is co-chaired by Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Shawn Mendes, and Rosalía, amongst others.
On account of the Marketing campaign For Music Training, 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 information, to be playful and artistic by music.
The museum has hosted particular displays on the careers of superstars from Shakira to BTS, Amy Winehouse, Katy Perry and extra. It’s at present displaying displays on Luther Vandross, photographer Jay Blakesberg and extra.
