Following his death, Prince’s Paisley Park Studios compound was converted to a museum, which would be open to the public for tours, starting Thursday, October 6. The Chanhassen City Council, however, has now delayed that opening date, according to the Star Tribune (via The Fader). After several hours of discussion and a 3 to 2 vote, they chose to table the zoning request that would reclassify Paisley Park as a museum. According to the Tribune, council members want more time to figure out how the museum’s opening would affect Chanhassen’s traffic, parking, and public and pedestrian safety. One member said they also need to decide whether they want to become a “tourist town,” hosting approximately 600,000 visitors annually. Mayor Denny Laufenburger reportedly disagreed with the decision to table.
The planned Paisley Park museum will provide fans access to the building’s first floor, which includes over 12 rooms that are organized chronologically throughout Prince’s career, and will include his various instruments, outfits, and other items. Prince apparently left “detailed guidelines” for converting the studios into a museum. Those include “a wall-mounted timeline of his life through the mid-1990s and messages and texts sent to friends that specify how he wanted fans to walk through Paisley Park.”
Read more on Prince and his legacy here.
Watch Prince perform with Kendrick Lamar and 3rdEyeGirl at Paisley Park:
via Matthew Strauss
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