Scifi Museum and Music Experience

12 May Posted by ZoomPicard

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Well it happened, I had to check out of the really nice hotel and move on into the heart of Seattle. To a Bed and Breakfast placed slap bang in the centre and a stone’s throw away from the famous pike place market, the home of the flying fish.

At the end of the afternoon I would meet up with both my sister and mother who were travelling down by bus from Vancouver that day. Just before lunch I sampled my first taste of local cuisine clams... and sampled them in a bread bowl clam chowder. A hollowed out bread roll overflowing with clam chowder. Very nice in fact I had clams again for dinner that evening.

After lunch I decided to go to the vicinity of the space needle and specifically in that area the Sci-Fi Museum and Music Experience. The Sci-Fi Museum is full of costumes, props, books and set pieces from various Sci-Fi movies and TV. Most of the pieces in the museum have been collected by Paul Allen, who is one of the cofounders of Microsoft. The first thing you see as you walk into the museum is the captain’s chair and costumes worn by Spock and Kirk from the original series of Star Trek.

The Music Experience that is in the same building as the Sci-Fi Museum is defiantly a real treat. Not only does it house pretty much all of Jimmy Hendrix’s guitars and costumes but a full history of music in the Seattle area and well over a hundred different types of guitars.

The highlight for me at least was the Sound Lab area located on the second floor of the Music Experience. Here there were various instruments from guitars, drums to pianos set up in little booths. In these booths you have a touch screen in front of you that guided you through from absolute beginner on how to play the instrument. Suffice it to say I excelled more on the instrument I had the most experience with when I took piano lessons as a child. I could have easily spent another hour or so just playing around with the instruments but had to head to the train station to meet up with family.

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