List of music museums


List of music museums


This worldwide list of music museums encompasses past and present museums that focus on musicians, musical instruments or other musical subjects.

Argentina

  • Museo de las Campanas – Mina Clavero
  • Academia Nacional del Tango de la República Argentina – Buenos Aires
  • Museo de instrumentos musicales Emilio Azzarini – La Plata
  • Museo Beatle, dedicated to The Beatles – Buenos Aires
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Armenia

  • House-Museum of Aram Khachaturian, dedicated to Aram Khachaturian – Yerevan
  • Charles Aznavour Museum, dedicated to Charles Aznavour – Yerevan

Australia

  • National Film and Sound Archive – Acton, Australian Capital Territory
  • Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute – Adelaide, South Australia
  • National Library of Australia – Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
  • Australian Country Music Hall of Fame – Tamworth, New South Wales
  • Slim Dusty Centre – Kempsey, New South Wales
  • Grainger Museum, dedicated to Percy Grainger – University of Melbourne, Victoria
  • Australian Performing Arts Collection – Melbourne
  • Arts Centre Melbourne, musical collection – Melbourne
  • ARIA Hall of Fame – Melbourne
  • Australian Jazz Museum – Wantirna, Victoria

Austria

Dedicated to composers

dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven

  • Beethoven-Haus– Krems an der Donau
  • Beethoven-Haus Baden – Baden bei Wien, Vienna
  • Erdődy estate (1973–2013) – Floridsdorf, Vienna
  • Bezirksmuseum Floridsdorf, musical collection – Floridsdorf
  • Eroica-Haus – Vienna
  • Haus des Heiligenstädter Testaments – Vienna
  • Pasqualati-Haus – Vienna
  • Beethoven-Haus Probusgasse – Vienna

dedicated to Anton Bruckner

  • Anton Bruckner Museum – Ansfelden
  • Kronstorfer Brucknerzimmer – Kronstorf

dedicated to Johannes Brahms and/or Joseph Haydn

  • Brahms Museum, Mürzzuschlag – Mürzzuschlag
  • Haydn-Haus Vienna with Brahms room – Vienna
  • Haydn-Haus Eisenstadt – Eisenstadt
  • Haydnkirche – Eisenstadt
  • Haydn's birthplace, dedicated to Joseph and Michael Haydn – Rohrau

dedicated to Gustav Mahler

  • Composing hut of Gustav Mahler – Steinbach am Attersee
  • Composing hut of Gustav Mahler – Maiernigg near Maria Wörth

dedicated to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and/or family members

  • Mozarthaus, dedicated to Nannerl Mozart and her mother – St. Gilgen
  • Mozart's birthplace – Salzburg
  • Mozarts Wohnhaus, dedicated to the whole family – Salzburg
  • Mozarthaus – Vienna

dedicated to Franz Schubert

  • Schloss Atzenbrugg – Atzenbrugg
  • Schubert's birthplace – Vienna
  • Death house of Franz Schubert – Vienna

dedicated to the Strauss family

  • Museum der Johann Strauss Dynastie, dedicated to the family Strauss – Vienna
  • Johann Strauss Wohnung, dedicated to Johann Strauss II – Vienna

dedicated to Arnold Schoenberg

  • Schönberg-Haus – Mödling
  • Arnold Schönberg Center – Vienna

dedicated to other composers

  • Zeitbrücke-Museum, partly dedicated to Franz von Suppé – Gars am Kamp
  • Lehár Villa, dedicated to Franz Lehár – Bad Ischl
  • Carl Zeller-Museum, dedicated to Carl Zeller – St. Peter in der Au
  • Liszthaus, dedicated to Franz Liszt – Raiding
  • Franz Liszt Museum — Vienna
  • Pleyel Museum, dedicated to Ignaz Pleyel – Ruppersthal, near Großweikersdorf
Vienna (other museums)
  • Fatty-George-Jazzmus, dedicated to Fatty George
  • Haus der Musik
  • Kunsthistorisches Museum, musical collection
  • Vienna Technical Museum, musical collection
Other museums
  • Eboardmuseum – Klagenfurt
  • Musikinstrumentenmuseum Schloss Kremsegg – Kremsmünster
  • Stille-Nacht & Heimatmuseum, partly dedicated to Silent Night – Oberndorf bei Salzburg
  • Blasmusikmuseum – Ratten

Azerbaijan

  • Azerbaijan State Museum of Musical Culture – Baku
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Belarus

  • Czesław Niemen Museum, dedicated to Czesław Niemen – Staryya Vasilishki

Belgium

East and West Flanders

  • Jazz Center Flanders, with jazz museum – Dendermonde
  • Peter Benoit Huis, dedicated to Peter Benoit – Harelbeke
  • Organ collection Ghysels – Kallo, Beveren
  • Music Museum De Harmonie – Koekelare
  • Jukebox Museum Menen (2012–2017) – Menen

Province of Antwerp

  • Museum Vleeshuis – Antwerp
  • Harmonium Art museuM – Klein-Willebroek
  • Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn", dedicated to Jef Denyn – Mechelen
  • Barrel Organ Museum Voortkapel – Voortkapel, Westerlo

Brussels and Flemish Brabant

  • Archive and Museum for Flemish Way of Living, musical collection – Brussels
  • Musical Instrument Museum – Brussels
  • Popular Instruments Museum Gooik – Gooik
  • South-West Brabant Museum, collection of cellist François Servais and family – Halle
  • Jazz Station – Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
  • Brabant Center for Music Traditions – Kampenhout
  • Museum van de Radio- en Televisie-Omroep (1979–1996) – Schaerbeek

Limburg

  • Stedelijk Beiaardmuseum – Hasselt
  • Museum for Musical Instruments Peer (?–2014) – Peer
  • Armand Preud'homme Museum (1990–2018), dedicated to Armand Preud'homme – Peer

Wallonia

  • Mr Sax's House, dedicated to Adolphe Sax – Dinant
  • Bell and Carillon Museum (1992–2013) – Tellin

Brazil

  • Museu da Imagem e do Som de Bauru – Bauru
  • Museu da Imagem e do Som de Campinas – Campinas
  • Museu da Imagem e do Som de Campo Grande – Campo Grande
  • Museu da Imagem e do Som do Ceará – Ceará
  • Museu da Imagem e do Som de Cuiabá – Cuiabá
  • Museu da Imagem e do Som de Alagoas – Maceió
  • Museu da Música de Mariana – Minas Gerais
  • Museu da Imagem e do Som do Pará – Pará
  • Luiz Gonzaga Museum, dedicated to Luiz Gonzaga – Pernambuco
  • Museu da Imagem e do Som do Rio de Janeiro – Rio de Janeiro
  • Reggae Maranhão Museum – São Luís
  • Villa-Lobos Museum, dedicated to Heitor Villa-Lobos – Rio de Janeiro
  • São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound – São Paulo

Burkina Faso

  • Musée de Manega, musical collection – Oubritenga
  • National Musical Museum – Ouagadougou

Canada

British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan

  • Gervais Wheels Museum – Alida, Saskatchewan
  • National Music Centre – Calgary
  • Creative Kids Museum, musical collection – Calgary
  • Canadian Music Hall of Fame – Calgary
  • Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame – Calgary
  • Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame – Merritt
  • Revelstoke Nickelodeon Museum – Revelstoke

Nova Scotia and Quebec

  • Musée des ondes Emile Berliner dedicated to the history of music recording – Montreal
  • Celtic Music Interpretive Centre – Judique
  • Hank Snow Home Town Museum, dedicated to Hank Snow – Liverpool
  • Musée de l'Accordéon – Montmagny
  • Anne Murray Centre, dedicated to Anne Murray – Springhill

Ontario

  • Forest City Gallery, musical collection – London
  • Youngtown Rock and Roll Museum, dedicated to Neil Young – Omemee
  • Franco-Ontarian Folklore Centre – Greater Sudbury
  • Shania Twain Centre (2001–2013), dedicated to Shania Twain – Timmins
  • Ontario Science Centre, musical collection – Flemingdon Park, Toronto
  • Barn Dance Historical Society Entertainment Museum – Wingham

Cape Verde

  • Museu da Tabanka, dedicated to tabanka music – Assomada

China

  • Choir Organ Museum – Gulangyu, Fujian
  • Gulangyu Piano Museum – Gulangyu, Fujian
  • Heilongjiang Music Museum, musical instruments – Harbin, province of Heilongjiang
  • Drum Tower of Xi'an – Xi'an, province Shaanxi
  • Wuhan Museum, musical instruments collection – Wuhan, province of Hubei

Czech Republic

dedicated to composers

dedicated to Antonín Dvořák

  • Birth House of Antonín Dvořák – Nelahozeves
  • Antonín Dvořák Museum – Prague
  • Antonín Dvořák Museum (Sychrov) – Sychrov
  • Antonín Dvořák Museum (Vysoké u Příbramě) – Vysoká u Příbramě
  • Antonín Dvořák Museum (Zlonicích) – Zlonice

dedicated to Leoš Janáček

  • Leoš Janáček Museum (Brno) – Brno
  • Leoš Janáček Museum (Hukvaldy) – Hukvaldy

dedicated to Bedřich Smetana

  • Bedřich Smetana Museum (Jabkenice) – Jabkenice
  • Birth House of Bedřich Smetana – Litomyšl
  • Bedřich Smetana Museum (Obříství) – Obříství
  • Bedřich Smetana Museum – Prague

dedicated to other composers

  • Josef Suk Museum, dedicated to Josef Suk – Křečovice
  • Pavel and Antonín Vranický exihibition, dedicated to Paul Wranitzky, Antonín Vranický and Jan Novák – Nová Říše
  • Centrum Bohuslava Martinů, dedicated to Bohuslav Martinů – Polička
  • Bertramka (temporally closed), dedicated to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Prague
  • Památník Jaroslava Ježka – Blue Room – Modrý pokoj, dedicated to Jaroslav Ježek – Prague
  • Memorial Room František Drdla, dedicated to František Drdla – Žďár nad Sázavou
Other museums
  • Music Without Musicians – Hořovice
  • Citerárium – Ostrava
  • Czech Musical Museum – Prague
  • Lobkowicz Palace, partly dedicated to classical music – Prague
  • PopMuseum – Prague
  • Museum of folk bands – Lesonice
  • Muzeum středního Pootaví, collection bagpipes – Strakonice

Denmark

  • Memory Lane Rock Museum – Knebel
  • The Danish Music Museum (Musikmuseet) – Copenhagen
  • Carl Nielsen Museum, dedicated to Carl Nielsen – Odense
  • Memphis Mansion, dedicated to Elvis Presley – Randers
  • Museum Ragnarock – Roskilde
  • Nysted Orgelmuseum – Nysted

Estonia

  • Estonian Theatre and Music Museum – Tallinn

Finland

  • Ainola, dedicated to Jean Sibelius – Järvenpää
  • Military Music Museum of Finland – Lahti
  • Sibelius Museum, dedicated to Jean Sibelius – Turku
  • Mechanical Music Museum – Varkaus
  • Villa Kokkonen, dedicated to Joonas Kokkonen – Järvenpää

France

Paris

  • Musée des Arts et Métiers – 3rd arrondissement
  • Salon Frédéric Chopin, dedicated to Frédéric Chopin – 4th arrondissement
  • Army Museum, Cabinet des instruments - 7th arrondissement
  • Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra National de Paris – 9th arrondissement
  • Musée du Hard Rock Café – 9th arrondissement
  • Musée Édith Piaf, dedicated to Édith Piaf – 11th arrondissement
  • Musée-Placard d'Erik Satie, dedicated to Erik Satie – 18th arrondissement
  • Musée de la Musique – 19th arrondissement
  • Phono Museum (France) – 9th arrondissement

Other museums

  • Musée de la musique – Anduze
  • Josephine Baker Museum, Château des Milandes, dedicated to Josephine Baker – Castelnaud-la-Chapelle
  • Museum of Musical Instruments, Céret – Céret
  • Musée de l'art forain et de la musique mécanique – Conflans-en-Jarnisy
  • Musée Hector-Berlioz – birthplace of Hector Berlioz – La Côte-Saint-André
  • Musée des instruments à vent – La Couture-Boussey
  • Musée Claude-Debussy, dedicated to Claude Debussy – Saint-Germain-en-Laye
  • Musée de la musique mécanique – Les Gets
  • Maisons Satie, dedicated to Erik Satie – Honfleur
  • Musée européen d'art campanaire – L'Isle-Jourdain, Gers
  • Musée du piano de Limoux – Limoux
  • Musée de la musique mécanique – Mirecourt
  • Musée de la Lutherie et de l'Archèterie françaises – Mirecourt
  • Le Belvédère, dedicated to Maurice Ravel – Montfort-l'Amaury
  • MuPop – Montluçon
  • Palais Lascaris, musical instruments museum – Nice
  • Musée de la chanson française – La Planche
  • Ferme des orgues – Steenwerck

Germany

Baden-Württemberg

  • Brahms House, dedicated to Johannes Brahms – Baden-Baden
  • Deutsches Musikautomaten-Museum – Bruchsal
  • Bezirksmuseum Buchen, partly dedicated to Joseph Martin Kraus – Buchen
  • Augustiner Museum, musical instruments collection – Freiburg
  • German Phono Museum – Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald
  • Glockenmuseum Stiftskirche – Herrenberg
  • Musikhistorische Sammlung Jehle – Lautlingen, Albstadt
  • Museum Bassermannhaus für Musik und Kunst – Mannheim
  • House of Music − Stuttgart
  • Deutsches Harmonikamuseum – Trossingen
  • Elztalmuseum, collection mechanical musical instruments – Waldkirch
  • Silcher-Museum, dedicated to Friedrich Silcher – Weinstadt-Schnait

Bavaria

  • Mozarthaus Augsburg, dedicated to Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Augsburg
  • E.T.A. Hoffmann-Haus, dedicated to E. T. A. Hoffmann – Bamberg
  • Franz-Liszt-Museum, dedicated to Franz Liszt – Bayreuth
  • House Wahnfried, dedicated to Richard Wagner – Bayreuth
  • Heimatmuseum Berching, partly dedicated to Christoph Willibald Gluck – Berching
  • Carl Orff Museum, dedicated to Carl Orff – Dießen am Ammersee
  • Werner-Egk-Begegnungsstätte, dedicated to Werner Egk – Donauwörth
  • Sängermuseum – Feuchtwangen
  • Richard-Strauss-Institut, dedicated to Richard Strauss – Garmisch-Partenkirchen
  • Geigenbaumuseum – Mittenwald
  • Rockmuseum Munich – Munich
  • Orgelbaumuseum Ostheim vor der Rhön – Ostheim vor der Rhön
  • Stadsmuseum Schwabach, with a collection of Adolf von Henselt – Schwabach
  • Orgelzentrum Valley – Valley
  • Gebrüder-Lachner-Museum, dedicated to Vinzenz, Franz and Ignaz Lachner – Rain

Berlin and Brandenburg

  • Musik-Museum Beeskow – Beeskow
  • Brandenburgisches Orgelmuseum, Bad Belzig
  • Piano Salon Christophori, dedicated to Bartolomeo Cristofori – Berlin-Gesundbrunnen
  • Ramones Museum, dedicated to the Ramones – Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • Berlin Musical Instrument Museum – Berlin-Tiergarten
  • Kreismuseum Bad Liebenwerda, dedicated to August Friedrich, Johann Gottlieb and Carl Heinrich Graun – Bad Liebenwerda
  • Scharwenka Kulturforum, dedicated to Xaver and Philipp Scharwenka – Bad Saarow

Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

  • Ostholstein-Museum Eutin, partly dedicated to Carl Maria von Weber – Eutin
  • Brahms-Haus Heide, dedicated to Johannes Brahms – Heide
  • Composers Quarter Hamburg – Hamburg-Neustadt
    • Brahms Museum, dedicated to Johannes Brahms
    • Telemann Museum, dedicated to Georg Philipp Telemann
    • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Museum, dedicated to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    • Johann Adolph Hasse Museum, dedicated to Johann Adolph Hasse
    • Gustav Mahler Museum, dedicated to Gustav Mahler
    • Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn Museum, dedicated to Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn
  • Hamburg Museum, musical collection – Hamburg-Neustadt
  • Beatlemania Hamburg (2009–2012), dedicated to The Beatles – Hamburg-St. Pauli
  • Jazz-Museum Bix Eiben (1987–2013) – Hamburg-Winterhude
  • Ostrockmuseum Kröpelin – Kröpelin
  • Brahms-Institut, dedicated to Johannes Brahms and other composers – Lübeck
  • Mecklenburgisches Orgelmuseum – Malchow

North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Bremen

  • Haus Eller, piano museum – Bergheim
  • Beethoven House, dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven – Bonn
  • Schumannhaus Bonn, dedicated to Robert Schumann – Bonn-Endenich
  • Orgelmuseum Borgentreich – Borgentreich
  • Elvis-Presley-Museum Düsseldorf (2011–2013), dedicated to Elvis Presley – Düsseldorf
  • Musikinstrumente- und Puppenmuseum (?-2011) – Goslar
  • rock’n’popmuseum – Gronau
  • Haus Kemnade, musical instruments collection – Hattingen
  • Klingendes Museum in der Burg Sternberg – Extertal
  • Stones Fan Museum, dedicated to The Rolling Stones – Lüchow
  • Musik-Museum Monschau (2009–2013) – Monschau
  • Orgelmuseum Fleiter, dedicated to Friedrich Fleiter – Münster-Nienberge
  • Harry’s klingendes Museum – Schwarmstedt
  • Organeum – Weener

Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Hesse

  • Wetterau-Museum, partly dedicated to Elvis Presley – Friedberg
  • Hindemith Kabinett, dedicated to Paul Hindemith – Frankfurt
  • Spohr Museum, dedicated to Louis Spohr – Kassel
  • Mutter-Beethoven-Haus, dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven – Koblenz
  • Musical Instruments Museum Lißberg – Ortenberg-Lißberg
  • Siegfrieds Mechanisches Musikkabinett – Rüdesheim am Rhein
  • Musikantenland Museum – Thallichtenberg
  • orgelARTmuseum – Windesheim

Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt

  • Villa Teresa, dedicated to Eugen d'Albert and Teresa Carreño – Coswig
  • Kurt Weill Centre, dedicated to Kurt Weill – Dessau-Roßlau
  • Carl Maria von Weber Museum, dedicated to Carl Maria von Weber – Dresden-Hosterwitz
  • Richard-Wagner-Stätten Graupa, dedicated to Richard Wagner – Dresden-Graupa
  • Gottfried-Silbermann-Museum, dedicated to Gottfried Silbermann – Frauenstein
  • Mauersberger-Museum, dedicated to Rudolf and Erhard Mauersberger – Großrückerswalde
  • Beatles-Museum Halle, dedicated to The Beatles – Halle
  • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach House, dedicated to seven composers – Halle
  • Handel House, dedicated to Georg Friedrich Händel – Halle
  • Orgelbaumuseum Klosterhäseler – Klosterhäseler
  • Historisches Museum & Bachgedenkstätte, collection Johann Sebastian Bach – Köthen
  • Mendelssohn House, Leipzig, dedicated to Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn – Leipzig
  • Bach Museum Leipzig, dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach – Leipzig
  • Grieg-Begegnungsstätte, dedicated to Edvard Grieg – Leipzig
  • Museum of Musical Instruments of Leipzig University – Leipzig
  • Schumann House, Leipzig, dedicated to Robert and Clara Schumann – Leipzig
  • Carl-Loewe-Museum, dedicated to Carl Loewe – Löbejün
  • Musikinstrumenten-Museum Markneukirchen – Markneukirchen
  • Lindenmuseum Clara Schumann, dedicated to Clara Schumann – Müglitztal
  • Reinhard-Keiser-Gedenkstätte, dedicated to Reinhard Keiser, Johann Christian Schieferdecker, Johann David Heinichen, and Johann Friedrich Fasch – Teuchern
  • Heinrich Schütz House, dedicated to Heinrich Schütz – Weißenfels
  • Robert Schumann House, dedicated to Robert Schumann – Zwickau

Thuringia

  • Schlossmuseum Arnstadt, partly dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach – Arnstadt
  • Thüringer Orgelmuseum (1988–2009) – Bechstedtstraß
  • Bachhaus, dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach – Eisenach
  • Reuter-Wagner-Museum, dedicated to Richard Wagner – Eisenach
  • Heinrich Schütz House, dedicated to Heinrich Schütz – Bad Köstritz
  • Max-Reger-Archiv, dedicated to Max Reger – Meiningen
  • Museum im Schloss Elisabethenburg, musical history and instruments – Meiningen
  • Bach-Stammhaus, dedicated to the Bach family and violins craft – Wechmar
  • Liszt-Haus Weimar, dedicated to Franz Liszt – Weimar

Ghana

  • Gramophone Records Museum and Research Centre of Ghana – Cape Coast

Greece

  • Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments – Plaka, Athens
  • Music Museum "Nikolaos Chalikiopoulos Mantzaros", dedicated to Nikolaos Mantzaros – Corfu
  • Museum of Ancient Greek, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Musical Instruments – Thessaloniki
  • Musical Museum of Macedonia – Thessaloniki

Guatemala

  • Museo Casa K'ojom, at the Centro Cultural la Azotea, dedicated to Maya music – Jocotenango, Sacatepéquez

Hungary

Budapest
  • House of Music Hungary
  • Béla Bartók Memorial House, dedicated to Béla Bartók
  • Frans Liszt Memorial Museum, dedicated to Franz Liszt
  • Zoltán Kodály Memorial Museum, dedicated to Zoltán Kodály
  • Museum of Music History
Other museums
  • Egri Road Beatles Múzeum, dedicated to The Beatles – Eger
  • Beethoven Memorial Museum, dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven – Martonvásár

Iceland

  • The Icelandic Museum of Rock 'n' Roll – Reykjanesbær
  • Folk Music Centre – Siglufjörður

India

  • Indian Music Experience: an interactive music museum – Bangalore
  • Karnataka Folk Museum, musical collection – Bangalore
  • Melody World Wax Museum, musical instruments collection (tribal, ethnic, folk & modern) − Mysore
  • Melody World Wax Museum − Mysore

Indonesia

  • Museum Musik Indonesia – Malang

Iran

  • Iran Museum of Music – Tehran

Ireland

  • Irish Rock N Roll Museum – Dublin
  • Irish Music Hall of Fame – Dublin (1999-2001)

Israel

  • the Hebrew Music Museu – Jerusalem
  • Violins of Hope – Tel Aviv

Italy

Northern Italy
  • Museo Pietro Abbà-Cornaglia – Alessandria
  • Gustav Mahler Stube, with memorial dedicated to Gustav Mahler – Altschluderbach, Toblach
  • Donizetti's birthplace, dedicated to Gaetano Donizetti – Bergamo
  • Donizetti Museum, dedicated to Gaetano Donizetti – Bergamo
  • Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica – Bologna
  • Oratorium of San Colombano – Bologna
  • Museo nazionale Giuseppe Verdi, dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi – Busseto
  • Casa natale di Giuseppe Verdi, dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi – Busseto
  • Villa Verdi, dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi – Busseto
  • Civic Museum of Crema, musical collection – Crema
  • Museo del violino – Cremona
  • Museo Civico Ala Ponzone – Cremona
  • Museum Via del Campo 29 rosso, dedicated to Fabrizio De André – Genoa
  • Jazz Museum of Genoa – Genoa
  • Collezione Didattica piccolo Museo della Musica – Lodi
  • Fondo Musicale Greggiati, dedicated to Giuseppe Greggiati – Mantua
  • Museum of Musical Instruments – Milan
  • Museo Teatrale alla Scala, musical collection – Milan
  • Casa natale di Arturo Toscanini, dedicated to Arturo Toscanini – Parma
  • Museo storico Riccardo Barilla del Conservatorio di Parma – Parma
  • Museum of Instruments for Popular Music – Roncegno
  • Museo Etnografico e dello Strumento Musicale a Fiato – Quarna Sotto
  • Civico museo teatrale Carlo Schmidl, musical collection – Trieste
  • Museo della Canzone – Vallecrosia
  • San Maurizio, dedicated to music of Baroque Venice – Venice
  • Museo Wagner, dedicated to Richard Wagner – Ca' Vendramin Calergi, Venice
  • Arena MuseOpera, AMO – Verona
Central Italy
  • Museo internazionale della fisarmonicait – Castelfidardo
  • Museo degli strumenti musicali (Firenze) – Florence
  • Museo Enrico Caruso, dedicated to Enrico Caruso – Lastra a Signa
  • Museo Gaspare Spontini, dedicated to Gaspare Spontini – Maiolati Spontini
  • Organ Museum Santa Cecilia – Massa Marittima
  • Collezione Titta Ruffo, dedicated to Titta Ruffo – Pisa
  • Casa Natale di Rossini, dedicated to Gioachino Rossini – Pesaro
  • Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Musical Instruments Museum – Rome
  • Museo Storico, part of the Teatro Argentina – Rome
  • Museo nazionale degli strumenti musicali – Rome
  • Museo della Zampogna, bagpipe museum – Scapoli
  • Accademia Musicale Chigiana – Siena
  • Museo della musica – Talla
  • Villa Puccini, estate of Giacomo Puccini – Torre del Lago
Southern Italy
  • Museum of Multiethnic Musical Instruments "Fausto Cannone" – Alcamo
  • Museum of Castle of Gesualdo, dedicated to Carlo Gesualdo – Gesualdo
  • Museum for Calabrian Popular Music and Musical Instruments – Isca sullo Ionio
  • Museum of the Conservatory San Pietro a Majella – Naples
  • Cultural Centre Leonida Repaci, partly dedicated to Francesco Cilea and Nicola Manfroce – Palmi, Reggio Calabria

Jamaica

  • Bob Marley Museum, dedicated to Bob Marley – Nine Mile
  • Bob Marley Mausoleum – Kingston

Japan

Tokyo
  • Michio Miyagi Memorial Hall, dedicated to Michio Miyagi
  • Orugōru no Chiisana Hakubutsukan (?–2013), mechanical musical instruments
  • Museum of the Musashino Academia Musicae
  • Min-On Musical Museum
Other museums
  • Mandolin Melodies Museum – Aichi
  • Kawaguchiko Music Box Forest – Fujikawaguchiko
  • Musical Instruments Museum – Hamamatsu
  • Musicbox Museum Izu – Izu, Itō
  • Rokko Musicbox Museum – Kobe
  • The Museum, successor of Belgium Organ Museum – Matsushima
  • Misasa Violin Museum – Misasa
  • Nasu Music Box Museum – Nasu
  • Onyoku Loudspeaker Museum – Saikai
  • Horie Organ Museum – Nishinomiya
  • Japan Museum of Contemporary Toy & Hall of Music Box – Mimasaka
  • Musical Museum of the Music College – Osaka
  • Otaru Music Box Museum – Otaru
  • John Lennon Museum (2000–2010), dedicated to John Lennon – Saitama
  • Musicbox Museum of Lake Hamana – Shizuoka
  • ARSBEL (2000-2010), organ museum – Tendō

Kazakhstan

  • Kazakh Museum of Folk Musical Instruments – Almaty

Latvia

  • Krišjānis Barons Memorial Museum, devoted to folklorist Krišjānis Barons and his work collecting Latvian folk songs (Dainas) – Riga

Lithuania

  • Povilas Stulga Museum of Lithuanian Folk Instruments, named after Povilas Stulga – Kaunas
  • Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum – Kaunas
  • Lithuanian Theater, Music and Cinema Museum/Lietuvos teatro, muzikos ir kino muziejus – Vilnius

Madagascar

  • University of Madagascar's Museum of Art and Archaeology, collection of musical instruments – Antananarivo

Mexico

  • Museum of the Yucatecan Song – Mérida
  • Casa de la Música Mexicana – Mexico City
  • National Musical Library – Mexico City

Mongolia

  • Mongolian Theatre Museum – Ulaanbaatar

Netherlands

North

  • Barrel Organ Museum Assen (1987–2008) – Assen
  • Harmonium Museum Netherlands – Barger-Compascuum
  • Museum Vosbergen – Eelde
  • Accordeon Museum Harte Meijer – Gasselternijveenschemond
  • C+B Museum, dedicated to Cuby + Blizzards – Grolloo
  • Elvis Presley Museum Molkwerum, dedicated to Elvis Presley – Molkwerum
  • Museum Musica – Stadskanaal
  • Barrel Organ Museum Folkloreklanken (2008–2012) – de Wijk

West

  • Beatles Museum Alkmaar, dedicated to The Beatles – Alkmaar
  • Geelvinck Early Piano Museum – Amsterdam
  • Museum Geelvinck-Hinlopen (1991–2015) – Amsterdam
  • Willy Alberti Museum (1997–2011/14), dedicated to Willy Alberti – Amsterdam
  • G. Perlee Barrel Organ Museum – Amsterdam
  • Geelvinck Pianola Museum – Amsterdam
  • Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, musical collection – The Hague
  • Music History Museum Scheurleer (1905–1935) – The Hague
  • Barrel Organ Museum Haarlem – Haarlem
  • Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision – Hilversum
  • Museum RockArt – Hook of Holland
  • Palingsound Museum – Volendam
  • Musical Information and Documentation Centre Ton Stolk – Vlaardingen

Centre and east

  • Watch & Listen Museum – Bennekom
  • Elvis Presley Museum Culemborg, dedicated to Elvis Presley – Culemborg
  • National Organ Museum – Elburg
  • Museum Geelvinck Kolthoorn – Heerde
  • Accordeon Museum De Muse – Malden
  • Gramophone Museum – Nieuwleusen
  • 192 & Demis Roussos Museum, dedicated to Radio Veronica and Demis Roussos – Nijkerk
  • Harmonium Museum Paasloo – Paasloo, Steenwijkerland
  • Museum Speelklok – Utrecht
  • Geelvinck Music Museum Zutphen (2016–2019) – Zutphen
  • Herman Brood Museum & Experience – Zwolle

South

  • Museum Klok & Peel – Asten
  • Gavioli Hall, named after Anselmo Gavioli – Helmond
  • Museum Dansant – Hilvarenbeek
  • Jukebox Museum – Sint-Oedenrode
  • Kessels, Muziek Instrumenten Tilburg – Tilburg

New Zealand

  • Elvis Presley Museum (Hawera), dedicated to Elvis Presley – Hawera
  • Whittaker's Live Musical Museum – Auckland

Norway

  • Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen, dedicated to Edvard Grieg – Bergen
  • Siljustøl, dedicated to Harald Sæverud, Bergen
  • Ringve Museum – Lade
  • Villa Lysøen, dedicated to Ole Bull – Os, Hordaland
  • Rockheim – Trondheim
  • Myllarheimen, dedicated to Torgeir Augundsson – Vinje

Philippines

  • Jose R. Gullas Halad Museum – Cebu City

Poland

dedicated to Frédéric Chopin

  • Fryderyk Chopin Museum – Warsaw
  • Chopin family parlor – Warsaw
  • Birthplace of Frédéric Chopin – Żelazowa Wola

dedicated to other musicians

  • Feliks Nowowiejski Music Salon Museum, dedicated to Feliks Nowowiejski – Barczewo
  • Villa Atma, dedicated to Karol Szymanowski – Zakopane
  • Museum of Vladimir Vysotsky in Koszalin, dedicated to Vladimir Vysotsky – Koszalin

Other museums

  • Museum of the Polish National Anthem – Będomin
  • Museum of Silesian Pipe Organs – Katowice
  • Musical Instruments Museum in Poznań – Poznań
  • Musical Instruments Museum in Szyba – Szyba
  • Museum of Folk Musical Instruments – Szydłowiec
  • Museum of Kashubian and Pomeran Literature and Music – Wejherowo

Portugal

  • Museum of Portuguese Music – Estoril
  • Fado Museum – Lisbon
  • Museu Nacional da Música – Lisbon
  • Museum of the Hot Club of Portugal – Lisbon
  • Stringed Instruments Museum, string instruments museum – Tebosa
  • Museu Fernando Lopes-Graça, dedicated to Fernando Lopes-Graça – Tomar

Puerto Rico

  • Casa del Compositor Héctor Flores Osuna, dedicated to Héctor Flores Osuna – Caguas
  • Casa del Trovador – Caguas
  • Centro Musical Criollo José Ignacio Quintón, dedicated to José Ignacio Quintón – Caguas
  • Casa Paoli, dedicated to Antonio Paoli – Barrio Cuarto, Ponce
  • Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña – Barrio Tercero, Ponce
  • Museo Pablo Casals – San Juan
  • Museum of Reggaeton and Daddy Yankee – at Plaza Las Américas Mall

Reunion

  • Maison Morange, also 'Musée des musiques et instruments de l'océan Indien' – Hell-Bourg

Romania

  • Luminiș Villa, dedicated to George Enescu – Cumpătu, Sinaia

Russia

Moscow

  • Glinka Museum
  • Harmonica Museum, dedicated to Alfred Mirek
  • Museum of Vladimir Vysotsky at Taganka Square, dedicated to Vladimir Vysotsky

Saint Petersburg

  • Temple of Love, Peace and Music, dedicated to John Lennon
  • Kamchatka, house of Viktor Tsoi
  • Museum of the Alexandrinsky Theatre
  • St.Petersburg State Museum, and branches:
    • House and Museum of Feodor Chaliapin
    • The Museum of Music and Music Instruments at the Count Sheremetev Palace
    • Rimsky-Korsakov Apartment and Museum, dedicated to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    • The Samoilov Actors' Family Museum

Other museums

  • Museum of Sergei Taneyev, dedicated to Sergei Taneyev – Dyudkovo, Zvenigorod
  • Museum Music and Time – Yaroslavl
  • Tchaikovsky State House-Museum, dedicated to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky en Sergei Taneyev – Klin
  • Rockmuseum – Ufa
  • Ivanovka, former summer residence of Sergei Rachmaninoff – Tambov
  • Musical Instrument Museum – Volgograd
  • Tsjaikovski Museum, dedicated to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Votkinsk

Slovakia

  • Slovak National Museum – Bratislava
  • Guitar museum – Sobrance

Slovenia

  • Birth House of Hugo Wolf – Ljubljana
  • The Rolling Stones Museum, dedicated to The Rolling Stones – Portorož

South Africa

  • Music of the Caab Centre – Franschhoek
  • Adler Museum of the History of Music – Johannesburg

South Korea

  • Ureuk Museum, course of music in Gaya and Silla – Goryeong, North Gyeongsang Province
  • Museum of Musical Instruments of the World (MMIW) – Paju
  • Hybe Insight, artist museum – Seoul
  • Korean Folk Village – Yongin

Spain

  • Valldemossa Charterhouse, living of Frédéric Chopin – Valldemossa, Mallorca
  • Casa–Museo del Timple, local string instruments (timples) – Teguise, Lanzarote
North coast
  • Alfercam Museum, ethnic musical instruments – Avilés, Asturias
  • Casa Museo Jesús de Monasterio, de dedicated to Jesús de Monasterio – Cabezón de la Sal, Cantabria
  • International Bagpipe Museum – Gijón
  • Soinuenea–Herri Musikaren Txokoa, Basque music – Oiartzun, Basque Country
North-east
  • Museo del Órgano, dedicated to organs – Agüero, Aragon
  • Museo Nino Bravo, dedicated to Nino Bravo – Aielo de Malferit, Valencia
  • Museu de la Música de Barcelona – Barcelona
  • Rock Museum – Barcelona
  • Museo de Música Étnica – Busot, Valencia
  • Museu Isaac Albéniz, dedicated to Isaac Albéniz – Camprodon, Catalonia
  • Museo Pablo Sarasate, dedicated to Pablo Sarasate – Pamplona, Navarra
  • Casa-Museo Julián Gayarre, dedicated to Julián Gayarre – Roncal, Navarra
  • Museu Pau Casals, dedicated to Pablo Casals – el Vendrell, Catalonia
  • House-Museum of Concha Piquer, dedicated to Concha Piquer – Valencia
South
  • Museo de la Música Étnica, music cultures worldwide – Barranda, Murcia
  • Casa Museo Manuel de Falla, dedicated to Manuel de Falla – Granada
  • Casa Museo Andrés Segovia, dedicated to Andrés Segovia – Linares, Jaén
  • Museo de Raphael, dedicated to Raphael – Linares, Jaén
  • Interactive musical museum of Málaga – Málaga
  • Museo del Baile Flamenco, dedicated to flamenco – Sevilla
  • Museo de la Guitarra – Almeria
Central
  • Museo Jacinto Guerrero, dedicated to Jacinto Guerrero – Ajofrín, Toledo
  • Museo de Sonidos del Mundo / Museo de Instrumentos – Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos
  • Museo Sara Montiel, dedicated to Sara Montiel – Campo de Criptana, Ciudad Real
  • Casa Museo José Padilla, dedicated to José Padilla Sánchez – Madrid
  • Fundación Victoria y Joaquín Rodrigo, dedicated to Victoria and Joaquín Rodrigo – Madrid
  • Museo Hazen, piano collection – Las Rozas de Madrid, Madrid
  • Museo de la Música. Colección Luis Delgado – Urueña, Valladolid

Sweden

Stockholm

  • ABBA: The Museum, dedicated to ABBA
  • Swedish Music Hall of Fame
  • Stockholm Music Museum (1901–2010)
  • Swedish Museum of Performing Arts
  • Avicii Experience, dedicated to Tim AVICII Bergling

Other museums

  • Jussi Björlingmuseum, dedicated to Jussi Björling – Borlänge
  • Smetana Room, dedicated to Bedřich Smetana – Gothenburg
  • Evert Taubes World (2008–2016), dedicated to Evert Taube – Göteborg
  • Jazzens museum, museum on jazz – Strömsholm
  • Guitars – the Museum – Umeå
  • Birgit Nilsson Museum, dedicated to Birgit Nilsson
  • Zarah Leander-museet, dedicated to Zarah Leander

Switzerland

  • Music Museum – Basel
  • Salon des Pianos – Basel
  • Musée Baud, named after instrument builders Frédy, Robert and Auguste Baud – L'Auberson
  • Organ and Harmonium Museum, Liestal
  • Queen: The Studio Experience, dedicated to Queen – Montreux
  • Museum of Timekeeping and Mechanical Musical Instruments – Oberhofen am Thunersee
  • Musée suisse de l'Orgue – Roche
  • Musée d'automates et de boîtes à musique – Sainte-Croix
  • Museum for Musical Automates – Seewen
  • Richard Wagner Museum, Lucerne, dedicated to Richard Wagner – Tribschen
  • SwissJazzOrama, jazz museum – Uster

Taiwan

  • Chang Lien-cheng Saxophone Museum – Houli, Taichung
  • Chimei Museum, musical collection – Tainan

Tajikistan

  • Gurminj Museum of Musical Instruments – Dushanbe

Tunisia

  • Centre des Musiques Arabes et Méditerranéennes, Ennejma Ezzahra Palace – Sidi Bou Said

Turkey

  • Aynalıkavak Palace, collection of musical instruments – Istanbul

United Kingdom

London

  • Museum of Asian Music – Acton
  • Musical Museum – Kew Bridge, Brentford
  • Foundling Museum – Bloomsbury
  • Horniman Museum, named after Frederick John Horniman – Forest Hill
  • British Music Experience (2009–2014) – Greenwich
  • Fenton House – Hampstead
  • Royal College of Music Museum – Royal College of Music, Kensington
  • Royal Academy of Music Museum – Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road
  • Handel & Hendrix in London, dedicated to George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix – Mayfair
  • Eel Pie Island Museum – Twickenham, Richmond upon Thames
  • Museum of Army Music – Kneller Hall, Whitton, Richmond upon Thames

Liverpool

  • Cavern Mecca (1981–1984), dedicated to The Beatles
  • The Beatles Story, dedicated to The Beatles
  • Liverpool Wall of Fame
  • 251 Menlove Avenue, paternal home of John Lennon
  • 20 Forthlin Road, birth house Paul McCartney
  • Liverpool Beatles Museum, created by Roag Best

England (other museums)

  • St. Albans Organ Museum – St Albans
  • Herschel Museum of Astronomy, musical exhibition, named after William and Caroline Herschel – Bath
  • Holburne Museum – Bath
  • Royal Birmingham Conservatoire – Birmingham
  • Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, musical instruments – Brighton
  • Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, musical instruments – Bristol
  • Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge – Cambridge
  • Coventry Music Museum − The 2-Tone Village, Coventry
  • Leith Hill Place, near Dorking, Surrey - former home of Ralph Vaughan Williams and National Trust property
  • Mechanical Museum and Doll Collection – Chichester
  • Paul Corins Magnificent Music Machines (1967–2013) – Liskerad, Cornwall
  • Mechanical Music Museum – Cotton
  • Warwick Arts Centre, musical collection – University of Warwick, Coventry
  • Hatchlands Park, The Cobbe Collection, keyboard instruments – East Clandon
  • Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, musical instruments – Cumbria
  • Finchcocks, historical keyboard instruments (1971–2016) – Goudhurst partly moved to Sevenoaks
  • John Taylor & Co, collections bells – Loughborough
  • Elgar Birthplace Museum, dedicated to Edward Elgar – Broadheath
  • Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum – Morpeth
  • Keith Hardings World of Mechanical Music – Northleach
  • Bate Collection of Musical Instruments – Oxford
  • Ashmolean Museum, musical instruments – Oxford
  • Pinchbeck, The Burtey Fen Collection, collection pipe organs – Pinchbeck
  • Scarborough Fair Collection, collection mechanical organs – Scarborough
  • National Centre for Popular Music (2009–2014) – Sheffield
  • American Museum in Britain – Somerset
  • Museum of Somerset – Taunton
  • Thursford Collection – Thursford
  • Museum of Wigan Life – Wigan
  • York Minster, musical instruments – York
  • York Museums Trust, bells – York

Northern Ireland

  • Nerve Centre – Derry

Scotland

  • Music museum of the Reid Concert Hall – Edinburgh
  • St Cecilia's Hall, musical instruments – Edinburgh
  • Russell Collection, musical instruments – Edinburgh
  • George Waterston Memorial Centre and Museum, dedicated to George Waterston – Fair Isle
  • The Museum of Piping – Glasgow
  • Dean Castle, collection of musical instruments – Kilmarnock
  • Glenesk Folk Museum – Tarfside

Wales

  • National Museum Cardiff, musical instruments – Cardiff
  • Tŷ Siamas, national center for folkmusic – Dolgellau

United States

Mobile

  • National Guitar Museum
  • New Jersey Music Hall of Fame

Alabama

  • Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame – Birmingham
  • W. C. Handy Home, Museum & Library, dedicated to W. C. Handy – Florence
  • Hank Williams Boyhood Home & Museum, dedicated to Hank Williams – Georgiana
  • The Hank Williams Museum, dedicated to Hank Williams – Montgomery
  • Muscle Shoals Sound Studio Museum – Sheffield
  • National Band Association Hall of Fame of Distinguished Band Conductors, Troy University – Troy
  • Alabama Music Hall of Fame – Tuscumbia
  • Commodore Museum, dedicated to the Commodores – Tuskegee

Arizona

  • Musical Instrument Museum – Phoenix

Arkansas

  • Delta Cultural Center – Helena
  • Guitar Museum – Jacksonville
  • Ozark Folk Center – Mountain View

California

  • Buck Owens Crystal Palace, dedicated to Buck Owens – Bakersfield
  • Museum of Making Music – Carlsbad
  • Grammy Museum at L.A. Live – Los Angeles
  • Songwriters Hall of Fame – Los Angeles
  • Sacramento Rock and Radio Museum – Sacramento
  • Nethercutt Collection – Sylmar, San Fernando Valley
  • Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven – San Jose

Colorado

  • Colorado Music Hall of Fame – Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Morrison

Connecticut

  • Museum of Fife & Drum – Ivoryton
  • Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments – New Haven

Florida

  • Latin Music Hall of Fame Museum – Miami
  • Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame, Universal Studios' City Jazz – Orlando
  • Florida Artists Hall of Fame, Florida State Capitol – Tallahassee
  • Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park, dedicated to Stephen Foster – White Springs

Georgia

  • Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame – Atlanta
  • Trap Music Museum, dedicated to rapper T.I. – Atlanta
  • Georgia Music Hall of Fame – Macon
  • The Allman Brothers Band Museum, dedicated to The Allman Brothers Band – Macon
  • The Little Richard House and Museum, dedicated to Little Richard – Macon

Illinois

  • Place de la Musique – Barrington Hills
  • Rock N Roll McDonald's (1983–2018, as restaurant museum) – Chicago
  • Illinois Rock & Roll Museum on Rt. 66 – Joliet
  • David Adler Music and Arts Center – Libertyville
  • Sousa Archives and Center for American Music – Urbana

Indiana

  • Dr. Ted's Musical Marvels, named after Ted Waflart – Huntingburg
  • Great American Songbook Foundation – Carmel
  • Rhythm! Discovery Center – Indianapolis
  • Zaharakos Ice Cream Parlor and Museum – Columbus

Iowa

  • America's Old-Time Country Music Hall Of Fame – Anita
  • Iowa Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame – Arnolds Park
  • Glenn Miller Birthplace Museum, dedicated to Glenn Miller – Clarinda
  • River Music Experience – Davenport
  • Music Man Square, dedicated to Meredith Willson and his musical The Music Man – Mason City
  • Bily Clocks Museum, partly dedicated to Antonín Dvořák – Spillville
  • Surf Ballroom & Museum – Clear Lake

Kentucky

  • Kentucky Music Hall of Fame – Mount Vernon
  • International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame – Owensboro
  • U.S. 23 Country Music Highway Museum – Paintsville
  • Francis M. Stafford House – Paintsville
  • Bill Monroe Museum, dedicated to Bill Monroe – Rosine

Louisiana

  • Louisiana Music Hall of Fame – Baton Rouge
  • Cajun Music Hall of Fame, dedicated to Cajun music – Eunice
  • Delta Music Museum – Ferriday
  • Rebel State Historic Site – Marthaville
  • New Orleans Mint (music collection went to Jazz Museum) – New Orleans
  • New Orleans Jazz Museum – New Orleans

Maine

  • Bryant Stove & Music Museum – Thorndike

Maryland

  • Bagpipe Museum – Ellicott City
  • Strathmore – North Bethesda

Massachusetts

  • Frederick Historical Piano Collection – Ashburnham
  • Museum of Fine Arts Boston, musical instruments collection – Boston

Michigan

  • Music House Museum – Acme
  • Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments – Ann Arbor
  • Motown Museum – Detroit
  • Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame – Detroit
  • International Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Museum – Detroit
  • Carnegie Center, Port Huron Museum, musical collection – Port Huron
  • Tuba Museum, dedicated to the tuba – Okemos

Minnesota

  • Minnesota Music Hall of Fame – New Ulm
  • Paisley Park Studios, dedicated to Prince – Chanhassen
  • Schubert Club, named after Franz Schubert – Saint Paul

Mississippi

  • Mississippi John Hurt Museum, dedicated to Mississippi John Hurt – Carrollton
  • Delta Blues Museum – Clarksdale
  • Rock & Blues Museum – Clarksdale
  • The Grammy Museum Mississippi – Cleveland
  • Greenwood Blues Heritage Museum & Gallery – Greenwood
  • Robert Johnson Blues Museum, dedicated to Robert Johnson – Crystal Springs
  • Mississippi Music Museum – Hazlehurst
  • Graceland Too (1990–2014) – Holly Springs
  • B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, dedicated to B.B. King – Indianola
  • Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame – Jackson
  • Highway 61 Blues Museum – Leland
  • Hartley Peavey Visitor Center, dedicated to Peavey – Meridian
  • Highland Park, dedicated to Jimmie Rodgers – Meridian
  • Charles H. Templeton, Sr. Music Museum, musical collection – Starkville
  • Gateway to the Blues Visitors Center and Museum – Tunica
  • Elvis Presley Birthplace, dedicated to Elvis Presley – Tupelo
  • Howlin' Wolf Museum, dedicated to Howlin' Wolf – West Point

Missouri

  • Country Gospel Music Hall of Fame – Branson
  • American Jazz Museum – Kansas City
  • National Blues Museum – St. Louis
  • Scott Joplin House State Historic Site, dedicated to Scott Joplin – St. Louis
  • Steel Guitar Hall of Fame – St. Louis

Nebraska

  • Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame – Omaha

Nevada

  • Liberace Museum Collection – Paradise
  • Elvis-A-Rama Museum (1999–2006) – dedicated to Elvis Presley, Paradise
  • The King's Ransom Museum, dedicated to Elvis Presley – Las Vegas

New Jersey

  • Morris Museum – Morristown
  • Grammy Museum Experience – Newark

New York

New York City and Long Island

  • Universal Hip Hop Museum – The Bronx
  • Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame and Museum – Brooklyn
  • National Jazz Museum – Harlem
  • Hip Hop Hall of Fame – Harlem
  • Long Island Music Hall of Fame – Melville, Huntington
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, circa 5,000 instruments – Manhattan
  • New York Jazz Museum – Manhattan
  • ARChive of Contemporary Music – Manhattan
  • Rose Museum, memorial of the debut of the Vienna Philharmonic – Carnegie Hall, Manhattan
  • Strawberry Fields, dedicated to John Lennon – Central Park, Manhattan
  • Louis Armstrong House Museum, dedicated to Louis Armstrong – Queens

Other museums

  • Bethel Woods Center for the Arts – Bethel (Woodstock site)
  • Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum, dedicated to Marcella Sembrich – Bolton Landing, Warren County
  • New York State Country Music Hall of Fame – Cortland
  • Original American Kazoo Factory and Museum, dedicated the kazoo – Eden
  • Fiddler's Hall of Fame and Museum, dedicated to fiddlers – Redfield
  • Empire State Theater Musical Instrument Museum – Syracuse

North Carolina

  • Curb Museum for Music and Motorsports – Kannapolis
  • North Carolina Music Hall of Fame – Kannapolis
  • Earl Scruggs Center, Cleveland County Courthouse, dedicated to Earl Scruggs – Shelby

North Dakota

  • Ray Opera House Museum – Ray

Ohio

  • Ted Lewis Museum, dedicated to Ted Lewis – Circleville
  • American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum – Cincinnati
  • Verdin Bell and Clock Museum – Cincinnati
  • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – Cleveland
  • Polka Hall of Fame – Euclid

Oklahoma

  • Roger Miller Museum, dedicated to Roger Miller – Erick
  • Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame – Muskogee
  • American Banjo Museum – Oklahoma City
  • Washington Irving Trail Museum, country music collection, named after Washington Irving – Ripley
  • Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Tulsa
  • Woody Guthrie Center, dedicated to Woody Guthrie and includes the archives of Phil Ochs – Tulsa

Oregon

  • Schuman Instrument Collection – Southern Oregon University, Ashland

Pennsylvania

  • Liberty Bell Museum – Allentown
  • DeBence Antique Music World – Franklin
  • Wolf Museum of Music and Art – Lancaster County
  • American Treasure Tour – Oaks, Montgomery County
  • Martin Guitar Museum, named after C. F. Martin & Company – Nazareth
  • New Holland Band Museum – New Holland
  • Bayernhof Music Museum – O'Hara Township
  • Marian Anderson House, dedicated to Marian Anderson – Philadelphia
  • Stephen Foster Memorial, dedicated to Stephen Foster – University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
  • Phillip Paul Bliss House, named after Philip Bliss – Rome
  • Vocal Group Hall of Fame – Sharon

South Carolina

  • The Kazoo Museum, dedicated to the kazoo – Beaufort
  • Sigal Music Museum (formerly the Carolina Music Museum) – Heritage Green

South Dakota

  • National Music Museum – Vermillion

Tennessee

  • West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center, musical museum and dedication to Tina Turner – Brownsville
  • Rockabilly Hall of Fame – Burns
  • Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame – Dollywood
  • Chasing Rainbows Museum, dedicated to Dolly Parton – Dollywood
  • Loretta Lynn Ranch, dedicated to Loretta Lynn – Hurricane Mills
  • International Rock-a-billy Hall of Fame – Jackson
  • Mountain Music Museum – Kingsport
  • James D. Vaughan Museum, dedicated to James David Vaughan – Lawrenceburg
  • Graceland, dedicated to Elvis Presley – Memphis
  • Blues Hall of Fame – Memphis
  • Memphis Music Hall of Fame – Memphis
  • Memphis Rock N' Soul Museum – Memphis
  • W. C. Handy Museum, dedicated to W. C. Handy – Memphis
  • Stax Museum of American Soul Music – Memphis
  • Johnny Cash Museum, dedicated to Johnny Cash – Nashville
  • Patsy Cline Museum, dedicated to Patsy Cline – Nashville
  • Willie Nelson and Friends Museum, dedicated to Willie Nelson – Nashville
  • Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum – Nashville
  • Music City Walk of Fame – Nashville
  • Gospel Music Hall of Fame – Nashville
  • Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum – Nashville
  • Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame – Nashville
  • National Museum of African American Music - Nashville
  • Museum of Appalachia, Hall of Fame and permanent collection of Uncle Dave Macon – Norris
  • Elvis & Hollywood Legends Museum, dedicated to Elvis Presley and others – Pigeon Forge

Texas

  • Tejano Roots Museum, dedicated to Tejano music – Alice
  • South Austin Museum of Popular Culture – Austin
  • Texas Music Museum – Austin
  • Texas Polka Music Museum – Austin
  • Heart of Texas Country Music Museum – Brady
  • Texas Country Music Hall of Fame – Carthage
  • Western Music Association Hall of Fame – Coppell
  • The Selena Museum, dedicated to Selena Quintanilla – Corpus Christi
  • Lefty Frizzell Museum, dedicated to Lefty Frizzell – Corsicana
  • Texas Musicians Museum – Hillsboro
  • Jukebox Museum – Houston
  • Texas Musicians Museum (?-2018) – Irving
  • Buddy Holly Center, dedicated to Buddy Holly and Texan music – Lubbock
  • Blues & History Museum – Navasota
  • Smitty's Juke Box Museum – Pharr
  • Freddy Fender Museum, named after Freddy Fender – San Benito
  • Texas Conjunto Music Museum – San Benito
  • Sherman Jazz Museum – Sherman
  • Bob Wills Museum, dedicated to Bob Wills – Turkey
  • Roy Orbison Museum, dedicated to Roy Orbison – Wink

Utah

  • Utah Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum – Ogden

Virginia

  • Birthplace of Country Music Museum – Bristol
  • Ralph Stanley Museum, dedicated to Ralph Stanley – Clintwood
  • Blue Ridge Institute & Museum, musical collection – Ferrum
  • Blue Ridge Music Center – Galax
  • Carter Family Fold, dedicated to the Carter Family – Hiltons, Scott County
  • Virginia Musical Museum – Williamsburg

Washington

  • Museum of Pop Culture, formerly Experience Music Project – Seattle

West Virginia

  • Gorby's Vintage Instrument Museum – South Charleston
  • West Virginia Music Hall of Fame

Washington, D.C.

  • O Street Museum Foundation

Uzbekistan

  • Memorial house museum of Tamara Khanum – Tashkent

References


Text submitted to CC-BY-SA license. Source: List of music museums by Wikipedia (Historical)



 


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