If you don’t like EMP, then you’ll really hate my introduction to it. In March, my little brother helped me move out to Seattle, and I figured the least I could do was take him to the top of the Space Needle like a good tourist. After staring at Mount Rainier for a while, he looked down and said, “What is that?” He was, of course, referring to the 140,000-square-foot, multicolored, Frank Gehry–designed structure that houses the EMP Museum. The next day, we swung by to nerd out over Star Wars costumes. So that wacky building and I got off to a good start.
It wasn’t until I was discussing the museum’s June 23 15th anniversary with some of my colleagues that I realized my warm opinion was not shared by the majority of Seattleites. This surprised me, so I began to conduct some informal research…