The Beat Museum Opens in San Francisco
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 01.20.06 | 1:00 AM ET
A one-room museum celebrating Beat Generation luminaries such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg has opened in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood with a slew of memorabilia, including photos, early book editions and an autographed copy of “Howl.” Jerry Cimino, a 51-year-old Beat fan and collector who worked at American Express and IBM, started the museum to “make more of a difference doing something no one else would try,” he told the Associated Press.
Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of City Lights bookstore in North Beach, told the AP that the Beats are popular these days for good reason: “The world today needs the Beat message because everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.”
The museum’s Web site features photos of the collection, including the Jack Kerouac Bobble Head shown here.
Related on World Hum:
* Kerouac’s “On the Road” Manuscript to be Displayed in San Francisco
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
