The Punk Rock Museum, Las Vegas, NV

Review| May 01 2024 The Punk Rock Museum, Las Vegas, NV The Punk Rock Museum. Mike Burnett, Founder. Lisa Brownlee, Developer. April 2023–Ongoing. https://www.thepunkrockmuseum.com/. Sarah Quigley Sarah Quigley University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries Special Collections and Archives Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2024) 46 (2): 144–147. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2024.46.2.144 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sarah Quigley; The Punk Rock Museum, Las Vegas, NV. The Public Historian 1 May 2024; 46 (2): 144–147. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2024.46.2.144 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search In 2016, Joe Corré, son of punk icons Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, set a boat full of punk rock memorabilia on fire in the Thames River, saying, "Punk was never, never meant to be nostalgic."1 A response to a series of museum events celebrating forty years of punk rock music, the stunt baffled and angered many. Henry Rollins, former Black Flag frontman and a punk icon himself, called Corré (and Westwood, who participated in the shenanigan) "cruel and incredibly selfish" for destroying the items and "depriving people from all over the world the joy of getting to look at [them]" in a piece for LA Weekly. Rollins fell squarely on the side of historic preservation, saying, "I think that now and then, someone is part of something that becomes bigger than themselves and with that comes a responsibility to maintain the work, thus allowing others to draw... You do not currently have access to this content.