Museum of Pop Culture

Experience Music Project (EMP) will broaden participation of the museum’s teen audience through the implementation of EMP Top 10—an interactive tool designed to cultivate teens as active contributors to, rather than passive consumers of, popular culture. EMP Top 10 is an in-museum and online activity in which visitors can nominate and vote for favorite songs and compare a dynamic, visitor-generated list to authoritative lists drafted by industry professionals and experts. Top 10 activities will leverage Web-based tools to advance the quality and scope of interactions with EMP’s exhibitions and programs, particularly by youth aged 10-19, a demographic that comprises 24 percent of museum visitors, and whose participatory needs are rapidly changing in response to newly emerging media.