Exhibit Highlights

The exhibits at the Museum utilize artifacts and multi-media - photos, video and interactive kiosks - to tell the story of rock and roll.

• One area examines rock’s roots, with displays on the blues, gospel, rhythm & blues and country, folk and bluegrass.
• Another area looks at the music scenes in various cities across the country and overseas, from Memphis in the Fifties to Detroit, Liverpool and San Francisco in the Sixties, Los Angeles in the Seventies, New York and London in the Seventies and Eighties and Seattle in the Nineties.
• Other Museum exhibits deal with such topics as rock’s early years, soul music, today’s chart topping and up-and-coming artists, the evolution of audio technology and Ohio’s musical heritage.
• Additional exhibits focus on the work of individual artists, ranging from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Elvis, Jimi Hendrix and Les Paul. Of key historic note is a re-creation of the legendary Sun Studios, featuring original recording equipment used by producer Sam Phillips.

Made up of thousands of priceless artifacts, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s permanent collection has become the repository for the most important and rare items of rock’s most celebrated artists.

• 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll
• Music of Ohio
• Right Here, Right Now
• Jimi Hendrix
• Rock and Roll’s Early Years
• R-E-S-P-E-C-T
• Hall of Fame
• Architects of Rock
• The Roots of Rock and Roll
• Rockin’ All Over the World
• The Evolution of Audio Technology

Dickey Betts' (the Allman Brothers Band) 1957 Gibson Les Paul Electric Guitar

Photo by Tony Festa
Collection of Brian Nelson