Experience Music Project & Science Fiction Museum Photos

The Experience Music Project (2000) & Science Fiction Museum (2004) buildings (EMP|FSM) were designed by renowned architect Frank O. Gehry. Next to the Space Needle at Seattle Center, the two museums cover the history of rock & roll and science fiction in literature & the movies.

See also: Seattle, Frank Gehry Architecture, Seattle Center
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Seattle Center Monorail passes through Science Fiction Museum building.

EMP|FSM & Space Needle at Seattle Center.

Experience Music Project (2000) & Science Fiction Museum (2004) buildings (EMP|FSM) from Space Needle.
Architect: Frank O. Gehry.

Science Fiction Museum & Hall of Fame sign with robot at EMP|FSM.

Science Fiction Museum (EMP|FSM), monorail & Gehry freeform architecture at Seattle Center.

Gehry's bronze building looks like rocket vents on Science Fiction Museum end of EMP|FSM.

Science Fiction Museum end of EMP|FSM looks like hooded alien.

Monorail tunnels through blue & copper colored sections of EMP|FSM.

Monorail between blue Science Fiction Museum & copper Experience Music Project section of Gehry's EMP|FSM building.

Outside wall of Sky Church section of EMP|FSM.

Experience Music Project entrance of EMP|FSM.

Light plays on Experience Music Project entrance of EMP|FSM.

Abstract patterns play on wall of EMP|FSM.

Waves of light on EMP|FSM building.

Waves of light on EMP|FSM building.

Freeform panels form blue section of EMP|FSM.

Metal & red sections of EMP|FSM meet.

Red section of EMP|FSM with green & blue screens from above.

Curving screens over red section of EMP|FSM from below.

Green screens color glow on gold section of EMP|FSM.

Red section entrance of Experience Music Project (EMP|FSM).

Red section entrance of Experience Music Project (EMP|FSM).

Bear-shaped window in red section of EMP|FSM.

Restaurant section of EMP|FSM.

Undulating walls of EMP|FSM.

Curving main lobby within EMP|FSM.

Gehry's double door entrance of EMP|FSM from within.

Video screens introduce rock & roll in entrance lobby of EMP|FSM.

Freeform structures of lobby entrance of EMP|FSM.

Structures cantilevered info lobby of Experience Music Project at EMP|FSM.

Tornado of 700 guitars in self-playing musical sculpture called If XI was IX by Trimpin at EMP|FSM.

Guitar & instrumental details of Trimpin's sculpture called If XI was IX at EMP|FSM.

Abstract rock & roll presentations in Sky Church of Experience Music Project (EMP|FSM).


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