http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/n...bit/55252898/1
A new exhibition, Taylor Swift: Speak Now — Treasures From the World Tour, will open at the museum June 6 and run through Nov. 4, featuring costumes, instruments, props and set pieces from the country/pop superstar's 2011-2012 Speak Now world tour. The exhibit opens as country fans stream into downtown Nashville for the CMA Music Festival, which runs June 7-10.
Museum director Kyle Young says the Swift exhibition is potentially the first in a series of short-run exhibitions that the museum would open over summer months in years to come.
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"Taylor is at the forefront of what's going on now in music, and we strive to be relevant," Young says. "This lends itself to a large exhibition, simply because of how elaborate the tour itself was."
Swift's new exhibit comes on the heels of the museum's May 17 announcement that she has pledged $4 million — the largest monetary donation by an artist in the museum's history — to fund a new 7,500-square-foot education center at the museum. The new Taylor Swift Education Center will serve five to six times its current number of guests, offering three classrooms and a state-of-the-art children's exhibit gallery spread over two floors.
Young says the exhibition isn't connected to Swift's donation; it simply grew out of their conversations. Dedicating an exhibition of this size to a contemporary subject is a new move for the museum, which reported that 38% of its visitors in 2011 were 34 and under.
The exhibition was assembled by the museum's curatorial staff and will re-create 10 scenes from the Speak Now production. Among the dozens of pieces featured are nine of Swift's stage outfits; stage instruments including guitars, banjo and ukulele; and the "Juliet Balcony" that Swift used to "fly" over audiences during concerts.
Absolute stanning tbh.
