This musician’s stash of post-punk music memories could fill a museum

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This musician’s stash of post-punk music memories could fill a museum

On a quiet block just west of Halsted Street in Bridgeport, a former funeral home now houses a collection of memories — both physical and emotional — so niche, so random, it almost shouldn’t exist. Martin Atkins, a longtime musician (Public Image Ltd., Pigface, Nine Inch Nails, Killing Joke) and a producer, and lecturer at Millikin University in Decatur, opened the Museum of Post Punk and Industrial Music in 2021, though its curation started lon…