Musician’s Museum Objective:  develop a six-room museum based on an artist of the Bop style and create a brochure advertising the new museum.

Your small group has been hired to develop a six-room museum for an Bop artist.  The board of directors of this museum have asked that you theme each room: one for each album the artist put out, one for each group they were a member of, one for each city they lived in, one for each guitar/trumpet/etc. they played in their career, one for each member of their band, etc.  You decide the theme for each room and imagine what might be found in that room.  Creativity and imagination are important, but if you need help, view the Buddy Holly Center website    https://ci.lubbock.tx.us/departments/buddy-holly-center (Opens in a new tab. To close the tab with your keyboard press Ctrl+w, or Ctrl+F4).  If you are a more visually stimulated person – visit a museum and draw from their displays.  The Presidential Museum and the Ellen Noël Art Museum in Odessa are nice places to get ideas.

Artists in the Bop style that are looking for someone to design their museum:

Art Blakey

Charles Mingus

Charlie Parker

Chet Baker

Dizzy Gillespie

Fats Navarro & Tadd Dameron

Herbie Hancock

John Coltrane

Oscar Peterson trio

Sonny Rollins

Stan Getz

Thelonius Monk

(To listen to some of the artists listed above, please visit the “Bop Musicians” folder found inside Week #7.)

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• Sample Museum Download Sample Museum 

Rubric that will be used for grading your group’s brochure:

Scoring mechanism: 3 pts – critical, 2 pts – important, 1 pt – bells & whistles

Criteria

Possible

Your Score

Viewable document posted in discussion board

3

Characteristics of a single style period are represented

3

Names of the band member/bands in which the artist played

3

Brochure is submitted/viewable on time

3

Artist/Band for which the museum is created

3

Musical style characteristics of the artist/band are discussed

3

Location of the museum is named (city & state)

2

Themes for each of the 6 rooms

2

Museum has a name

2

Admissions cost is stated

2

Operating hours of the museum are available

1

Blueprint of the museum’s layout

1

Description of contents of the various rooms

1

Why is the museum using that building (birthplace, first studio, etc)?

1

Gift shop memorabilia

1

How to get tickets into the museum

1

Total

32