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Lawrence Welk Museum
2 reviews for Lawrence Welk Museum
Erin C. and I came here together, and we were both similarly underwhelmed. I'll let her review speak for the both of us (I'm only throwing my two stars in because I tend to trust ratings more when more people have reviewed the place). Perhaps had we not come during one of the matinee showings of "Fiddler on the Roof" the "museum" wouldn't have felt like such an afterthought.
I had been looking forward to visiting the Lawrence Welk Museum for years, and was sad to find that it was not a museum so much as a lobby filled with pictures of Lawrence Welk, objects that are similar to those owned by Lawrence Welk, and the occasional bit of information about Lawrence Welk. On the plus side, the museum houses many of Welk's awards, a great bronze statue of the man himself, THE WORLD'S LARGEST CHAMPAGNE GLASS, and a life-sized cutout of Welk available for photo ops. On the downside, that cutout, once the center of a "Be on TV with Lawrence Welk!" exhibit that included an real television camera, is now stashed behind seating for the many elderly patrons of the Lawrence Welk Theater. The narrative of Welk's life stops about halfway through, leaving those who were not religious followers of the television program confused. As a whole, the museum is disorganized, disheveled, and disappointing. The Welk Resort has wasted the opportunity to properly enshrine a pop culture icon. Alas, poor Welk, we hardly knew ye.