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Kiosks rock out with the Beatles

June 7, 2011

The redesign of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland is nearly complete and includes interactive kiosks and wayfinding solutions to showcase Beatles memorabilia and info.

"The Rock Hall's extensive redesign includes the most comprehensive, artifact-driven Beatles exhibit in the world," Jim Henke, the Museum's Vice President of Exhibitions, said in a news release.

The new Beatles exhibit is the crown jewel of an extensive museum restructuring that has three primary goals: to improve the visitor experience via enhanced wayfinding, to tell the story of rock and roll in a more chronological fashion and to upgrade all museum exhibits to state-of-the-art technology.

Redesign highlights include six interactive kiosks and listening stations dedicated to "early influences" located in the Ahmet M. Ertegun Main Exhibition Hall.

Another kiosk explores numerous disc jockeys who introduced millions of listeners to rock and roll, rhythm & blues, hip-hop, funk and folk.

The second level of the museum houses seven interactive kiosks containing the popular "Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll and One-Hit Wonders"

The redesign, funded by the Rock Hall's $35 million capital campaign, will be complete in time for the return of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies to Cleveland in 2012.