Going to the Taylor Swift Experience is my favorite fieldwork because it portrayed a very important female figure in the way that every female should be portrayed: with dignity and respect.

On Thursday, December 1st, my Social Justice group and I went to the Taylor Swift Experience, a Grammy museum in the South Street Seaport. We had decided to go to this museum because Taylor Swift is a very big female in the media today; the press is always writing about her, making up rumors, and she is a very celebrating artist. Another thing Taylor Swift is famous for is all of her boyfriends. So we decided to go to the museum to see what type of things they put in the museum – do they put in things about her boyfriends and her feud with Kanye West, or do they include all of the awards that she has one?

I think we were all very happy to see that the museum stayed true to its’ purpose – they only included things about her career. There was even an entire wall full of things magazine covers that featured Taylor Swift and not one of them had anything to do with her boyfriends. It was also nice to see how involved Taylor was in the creation of this experience. She had donated one of her Grammy awards and multiple of her costumes that she wore during her tours, and they were featured (in enclosed glass stands) in the museum. They even had the very piano Taylor had used during her 1989 World Tour near the entrance.

Even though the museum wasn’t very big, it had everything to do with the things that it should have. It told her story in all of its’ entirety, and kept true to who she was – not who the media warped her to look like.