{"id":516144,"date":"2026-07-08T17:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/516144\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T17:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:27:11","slug":"one-of-the-worlds-largest-beatles-collections-opens-next-month-in-downtown-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/516144\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the world&#8217;s largest Beatles collections opens next month in downtown St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The foyer of the Palais Royale building will host stripped-down candlelit performances by Beatles tribute bands, and the museum also hopes to bring in guest speakers and Beatles historians from around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s not necessarily an educational museum in the sense of trying to document history, but we&#8217;re more interested in spreading the peace, love, and happiness that The Beatles were all about,\u201d Bachner says. \u201cMy favorite thing is listening to people tell their Beatles stories. Everybody has one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">A grand opening celebration is planned for this fall. The museum also expects to launch an online merchandise store in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Admission will be $15 for visitors ages 8 and older. Bachner says the fee will help support the nonprofit&#8217;s ongoing operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cWe are a not-for-profit museum and we want to make sure everyone knows that nobody is getting rich off of this,\u201d said Bachner. \u201cWe rely on sponsorships, donations and grants to keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">When it opens on August 5th, Penny Lane will welcome visitors from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, with plans to eventually add live music on Saturday evenings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The foyer of the Palais Royale building will host stripped-down candlelit performances by Beatles tribute bands, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-516144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}