Exhibit visitors are given a pair headphones for a personalized experience. One of the areas is a prison hallway with a framed grocery receipt and letters from Shakur while he spent time behind bars. TV screens played constant loops of some of his most popular interviews he conducted while incarcated. Shakur said his mother was pregnant with him when she was in prison and released just a month before he was born.
For this exhibit, every inch of each space is used well, from the entrance detailing his mother Afeni Shakur’s life fighting for social justice to the handwritten plans he had for himself and his career gently displayed in organized rows, to the music that played through each spectator’s headphones walking through the halls. Plastered high on the walls are some of Shakur’s best-known quotes.
Spectators will see it all from his most famous outfits to an ending that will have you on the verge of tears as another of Shakur’s poems play through individual headphones.
The exhibit is expected to stay in Los Angeles until May before moving to other cities, the Los Angeles Times reports.
