The Art of Clubbing from Museum of Club Culture Humber Street will open its doors on the 29th and 30th August (12pm – 9pm)

The worlds 1st and only Museum dedicated to Club Culture will open it’s doors in Hull at No 10 Humber Street on the 29th and 30th August (12pm – 9pm) No10 Humber Street spearheading the establishment of a creative and cultural quarter in Hull’s idiosyncratic and historic Fruitmarket.

The area inside No 10 Humber Street will be host to many projects and multi-media themed exhibitions with chronicle ordering and will celebrate past and present night-club cultures and streetstyles from around the whole world.

Museum of Club Culture looks at the stereotypes and puts the cultural significance of nightclubs and streetstyle and the important role that they have played in shaping modern culture on a pedestal.

The museum provides insights on its cultural effects and issues drawn from sociology and cultural studies such as social capital, identification, hierachies within groups including:

• fragmentation
• revivals
• authenticity
• post-modern stylistic flux
• the body
• gender
• fetishism
• peer group norms
• globalisation
• consumption
• commodification.

The museum’s specialist and extensive archival collections will include

• dress styles
• artefacts
• music
• memorabilia
• articles
• books
• international case studies
• oral histories from clubbers
• data bases
• illustrations
• film
• video

and‚  will reportage photography chronicling the subterranean world of night-clubs throughout history. Every clubbing night owl, party monster, dance style, subcult and micro -movement will fall under the museums trance.