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| - Date of my visit: 5-January-2017
Time of my visit: Afternoon
I always wanted to go to the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame. Finally, I got a chance to! Since we were already in Cleveland, it was on our list of things to do.
I pre-ordered out tickets online and we had no problems picking them up at a will call window. It was extremely easy to enter and they had a complementary coat check in.
I had a list of people I wanted to see and was eager to start. The place was broken down into several section and they all lead into each other. We started at one of those halls. Right at the beginning they have the most recent inductees (Cheap Trick, Chicago, Deep Purple, N.W.A and Steve Miller), which I thought was cool, it had a little video running about each inductee, some memorabilia and N.W.A. was one of the artists I wanted to see.
We started to explorer the rest of the Hall of Fame. I was thinking it was going to be setup by artist, but it was, sort of, setup by era. A perfect example, Nirvana was a part of Settle sounds and that's about all they had for Nirvana... which was sad... They had a Hall of Legends, where they had a lot of memorabilia (by comparison) from Guns N Roses, David Bowe, Michael Jackson, etc. I was surprised Queen (another band I wanted to see) was not a part of it, I was later informed, by one of the curator, that because Hall of Fame does not pay to display memorabilia, they are heavily dependent (in the case of Queen) on estate or families or, I guess, memorabilia owner. In my opinion, it's an absolute shame that there is no Queen display.
The three biggest displays they had (or at least the one I saw) were Elvis, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
One of the cool thing, they do have is a signature wall of all inductees, hall of fame. They put it all in alphabetical order, I was hoping they would do it by the induction year, but alphabetical makes more sense. Sadly, that was about the only "memorabilia" of Queen I saw.
I would say, it has been a C experience. Definitely worse checking it once in your lifetime, just be aware if you want to see memorabilia of someone in specific, call ahead.
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