Music Museums

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•  Clarement Colleges - Kenneth G. Fiske Museum - houses one of the most diverse collections of musical instruments in the United States, containing over 1,400 American, European and ethnic instruments dating from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries
•  American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum - dedicated to honoring and celebrating the many facets of classical music in the United States
•  Boswell Museum - preserves and presents, popular music, jazz, and social history of the 1920's and 1930's
•  CIMCIM - aims to promote high professional standards in the use and conservation of musical instruments in museums and collections
•  Hot Press Irish Music Hall of Fame - take an interactive tour of Ireland's musical heritage, right up to the present day
•  Internet Museum of Flexi/Cardboard/Oddity Records - sound clips and images of strange records from around the world
•  Ivan Jadan Museum - providing history, biography, photographs, and discography of the Russian tenor, as well as information about the Ivan Jadan Museum
•  Museum of Music History
•  Museum of Timepieces and Mechanical Music (MUMM) - includes pictures from the collection of historic timepieces and mechanical music
•  Nydahl Collection - collection of instruments; music manuscripts; drawings, paintings, and photos; and scores
•  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
•  Siljustol Museum - museum dedicated to Norwegian composer Harald Saeverud, housed in his former home

by location

•  Africa
•  Asia & the Middle East
•  Australia & Oceania
•  Europe
•  North America (USA) & Central America
•  South America

•  Kunitachi College of Music - Collection for Organology

•  Museum of Musical Culture - collection of instruments, archives, manuscripts, and memorabilia

•  Museum of Music - collection of musical instruments from the Renaissance to modern times

•  Museum of Popular Instruments - collection of Greek popular musical instruments dating from the 18th century to the present day

•  Finchcocks Living Museum of Music
•  International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections - a committee of ICOM, the International Council of Museums
•  Oxford University - Bate Collection of Musical Instruments - collection of historical woodwind, brass and percussion instruments; over a dozen historical keyboard instruments; a complete bow-maker's workshop and a collection of bows; and the Javanese gamelan Kyai Madu Laras
•  Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments - collection principally contains those stringed keyboard instruments which are the precursors of the piano

•  Alabama Music Hall of Fame - honoring the state's music achievers. All styles of music are represented and with people in all aspects of the music industry

•  Boston Rock & Roll Museum - on-line, interactive virtual journey through the annals of local Rock & Roll

•  Mississippi State University - Templeton Music Museum and Archives - repository of musical instruments, recordings and sheet music from 1880 to 1930

•  Vassar College - The Treasure Room - historical musical instrument collection

•  University of South Dakota - Shrine to Music Museum - Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments. The collections include more than 6,000 American, European, and ethnographic musical instruments

• Stax Museum of American Soul Music - in Memphis, Tennessee; at the original site of Stax Records, it is the only soul music museum in the world and an international attraction.

•  Texas Music Museum - collects photographs, artifacts, and documents relating to all aspects of Texas music

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last edited Tuesday, December 16, 2008