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Massillon Museum to showcase vinyl album artwork

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August 26, 2024 2 Mins Read

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Margy Vogt
| Special to The Massillon Independent

The Massillon Museum’s Fred F. Silk Community Room Gallery will exhibit vintage record album covers from Aug. 31 through Oct. 27.

“On the Record” will celebrate iconic vinyl album artwork from the collections of Massillon Public Library Vinyl Club members and friends. In addition to seeing album covers, music lovers will be able to select and play (free!) 45 RPM records on a 1950s Seeburg jukebox on loan from Phillip Elum.

Highlights

Vinyl Club member and Massillon Museum volunteer Mary Jane Corwin organized this exhibition with the assistance of fellow club members, the library’s programming specialist and the the MassMu staff. Vinyl Club, which is open free to teens and adults, meets monthly in the main branch auditorium. Presenters address pertinent topics and participants share their knowledge and spin songs on the library’s turntable.

To complement “On the Record,” Nick Diamant will talk about his Camelot Music career at the museum’s Brown Bag Lunch on Tuesday. That program, which begins at 12:10 pm., is free and open to everyone. No reservations are required.

A free, public “On the Record” reception will take place 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 19. Copies of new, unopened vinyl albums will be offered in a silent auction that evening. Funds raised will benefit the Massillon Museum.

Why attend

Visitors can also view “Gilding Northeast Ohio: Fashion and Fortune 1870–1900” (through Oct. 13); “Innovators of Massillon”; the Immel Circus; the local history and fine and decorative arts galleries; Emily Bartolone: “On Its Head” (through Sept. 8); Kimberly Chapman: “Through the Looking Glass”(Sept. 21 through Nov. 3); “90 Years of Community: The Massillon Tiger Football Booster Club”; “Brown’s Town: Art Inspired by Ohio’s Football Heritage”; the “Paul Brown/Massillon Tiger Football History Timeline”; and “Ethiopian Expedition of1903.” A 1916 Massillon-manufactured Russell steam engine is displayed in the garden.