Justin Bieber: Steps to Stardom. John Kastner

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СКАЧАТЬ his grandparents, came to the museum for the first time. He spent about 90 minutes in the exhibit, posed for pictures, and signed a t-shirt for the museum that became part of the exhibit and now hangs in our gift shop. It was a great moment for us when we saw his reaction. He couldn’t have been any nicer. He said thanks half a dozen times, he asked to have his picture taken with Micaela and Sara, the two people who created the exhibit, and I took a picture of the two of us.

      I had an Instagram account for a long time but had never posted anything. The picture of Justin and me was my first post, and as the expression goes, my phone blew up!

      Throughout the year, the number of people coming to visit never really let up. We ran out of merchandise, ordered more t-shirts and albums, skateboard decks, laminated lanyards, cellphone covers, and key chains.

      The sheer number of people coming to the museum was astounding, but what was more amazing was where they were coming from.

      It was commonplace to have people here from Brazil and Japan and France, all at the same time. It wasn’t unusual to have groups of people in the exhibit who had never met talking Spanish to one another, or Mandarin or German.

      On a Wednesday in October we had a mother and daughter from Blackpool, England; a mother and daughter from Stratford-upon-Avon, England, who brought us a tea towel from a local school; a young woman travelling by herself from Berlin; another young woman travelling by herself from Tokyo; and a family group of nine, three generations from Sydney, Australia. As we often joke, “just another day at the Stratford Perth Museum.”

      Every day, someone signs our blackboard and includes a hometown that turns heads. Casablanca, Morocco; Churchill, Manitoba; Key West, Florida; Monroeville, Alabama; or Reykjavík, Iceland.

      That is one of the reasons we put a map right by our front door, and on the way out we ask visitors to put in a pin that marks the country they call home. We have run out of pins twice, and the map quite literally has pins on every corner of the map.

      The number of pins from Japan, the Philippines, Brazil, France, and Mexico never ceases to amaze us.

      And after the exhibit had been around for a few months, we started to see patrons that we recognized as having been here at least once, sometimes two and three times, people from Florida and Indiana and Horseheads, New York.

      Needless to say, we are very proud of the Steps to Stardom exhibit and the way it touches people, but we are most proud that Justin also likes the exhibit and finds it comfortable visiting. When he does drop in, we always try to give him his space. He has been here with family, dropped in by himself, he once brought Jaden Smith with him, and then his new wife Hailey, not long after they were married.

      We know that this exhibit will not last forever, but it will be forever remembered by the Beliebers and the people who look after and run the Stratford Perth Museum. That is one of the reasons why we have put so many of the items and the narrative that goes with them into this book that will serve as a keepsake both for the museum and its patrons.

      When I left the Beacon Herald, lots of people told me I should write a book. I always replied “Never.” Well, Never Say Never.

      AN ARMY OF BELIEBERS

      The Stratford Perth Museum was certainly caught off guard by the interest in the Steps to Stardom exhibit. Within a few hours of news of the exhibit being published in the local newspaper, we were inundated with media requests.

      We soon realized that this was something special for Beliebers, and we increased the size and scope of the exhibit dramatically. We also put tickets for the opening weekend on sale online, and after seeing hundreds of tickets sold in the first hour, we made the decision that people would need tickets in advance. The opening weekend was Family Day, and we were sold out on Sunday and the holiday Monday. Over 1,000 people went through the museum that weekend.

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