The Museum of Craft and Folk Art held an exhibit entitled “Evolution of the ‘Ukulele: The Story of Hawaii’s Jumping Flea” between August 2 – October 21, 2007.
This exhibition website is well worth looking at, there is an excellent history article that includes some great photo’s, and there is also details of the Uke Festival that was the highlight of the exhibitions run.
The exhibition also showed one of the other fascinating sides of the new ukulele crazy, a passion for building and adapting new ukuleles, or repairing old ones. The exhibition showcased a series of individuals work as luthiers: “one who makes or repairs stringed instruments.”
Including this wonderful example:
Ukulele Ray's Andy Warhol Soup-A-Lele.
