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Milestones Spotlight: Ella Fitzgerald

Past

Artist's Journey: Funk Blast

Past

Jimi Hendrix Backstage

Past

Milestones Spotlight: Celebrating Memphis

Past

(Un)Common Objects: Treasures of Pop Music

Past

Past

JAZZ: Photographs by William R. Munroe

Past

Past

Island Revolution: Jamaican Rhythm from Ska to Reggae, 1956-1981

Past

Artist to Icon: Early Photographs of Elvis, Dylan, and the Beatles

Past

The Gehry Experience

Past

Strats, Studios and the Seattle Sound

Past

Explore fantasy’s most iconic creations, like the Cowardly Lion costume from The Wizard of Oz, or Lord of the Rings weaponry, or scenes from The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.

Fantasy: Worlds of Myth and Magic

Current

IFVIWASIX: Roots and Branches

Past

Through stories from more than forty video game developers, designers, coders, composers, and critics: museum visitors can witness the present and future of gaming as it unfolds.

Indie Game Revolution

Current

Step aboard a dynamic and interactive starship, where you can scout unexplored worlds, discover new alien civilizations, and most importantly, more than 150 artifacts from iconic films and TV shows — from H.G Wells’ War of the Worlds to Blade Runner and everything in between.

Infinite Worlds of Science Fiction

Current

MOPOP’s Massive: The Power of Pop Culture explores the impact of pop culture on our daily lives.

Massive: The Power of Pop Culture

Current

Never Turn Back: Echoes of African American Music unveils the profound legacy of Gospel, Blues, Jazz, and Soul artists who shaped the soundscape of American culture and used their music as instruments of resistance, identity, and representation.

Never Turn Back: Echoes of African American Music

Current

PUSH ME, PULL ME: Pearl Jam and the Art of the Screen Printed Poster

Past

Horror fans, get fired up: MOPOP is home to Seattle’s finest horror collection, with more than 50 props and costumes straight from across a century of horror cinema.

Scared to Death: The Thrill of Horror Film

Current

Set your inner musician free: record yourself at MOPOP’s Sound Lab, an interactive exhibition with guitars, drums, samplers and mixing consoles!

Current

NCRU, NYC 1982 – Credit: © Janette Beckman

Styled by the Streets: Black Women & Hip-Hop Fashion

Upcoming

Artifact Features

Virtual Event

Mariners 50: Community & Baseball

Mariners 50: Community & Baseball Mariners 50: Community & Baseball

March 14 – August 19, 2026

Virtual Event

Baldocchi Brazil FIFA World Cup Winner's Medal, 1970. World Cup Legends – Courtesy of Julien’s Auctions

Icons of Soccer Artifact Spotlight Icons of Soccer Artifact Spotlight

June 13 – July 6, 2026

Online Collection

A New American Gothic illustration by Kurt Cobain, part of the MOPOP Permanent Collection

MoPOP online is always open.

While the Museum of Pop Culture boasts hundreds of artifacts within its walls, our permanent collection has more than 85,000—one of the largest in the world. That's why our Curatorial and Collections teams work daily to digitize artifacts, with the goal to make MOPOP's entire archive online, accessible anytime, anyplace.

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