The Recording Academy’s Grammy Museum doesn’t officially open its doors to the public until Saturday, but a Tuesday morning preview revealed the new facility to be a heavily interactive exhibition hall, one whose emphasis is not on past trophy winners or even historic artifacts but instead on music education and appreciation.The 30,000-square-foot space, which comes complete with a 200-seat theater, essentially functions as a hands-on gallery: Visitors who weren’t taken with the mix on Beck’s “Gamma Ray,” a single from his recent album “Modern Guilt,” can remaster it at one station, while others can rap along with Jermaine Dupri at another.
Guests are immediately whisked to the fourth floor, where they’re greeted with an 18-foot touch-screen table that looks and feels like something out of a James Bond movie. There, they can put on headphones and scroll through genres – tap “outlaw country,” for instance, and a Waylon Jennings song plays.
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