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The Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) is located in Phoenix, Arizona. Opened in April 2010, [ 1 ] it is the largest museum of its type in the world. The collection of over 15,000 musical instruments and associated objects includes examples from nearly 200 countries and territories, representing every inhabited continent.
A second location opened in Mesa near Southern Ave and Dobson Rd in 1975. Bill Brown owned a construction business at the same time. There was also a location in Tucson for a short time. In 1984, Bill Brown owner of the restaurants sold the Phoenix location to a local real estate developer who subsequently closed it. The original Mesa location ...
This list of music museums offers a guide to museums worldwide that specialize in the domain of music. These institutions are dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of music-related history, including the lives and works of prominent musicians, the evolution and variety of musical instruments, and other aspects of the world of music.
Musical instrument museums in the United States (17 P) A. Music museums in Alabama (3 P) Music museums in Arkansas (1 P) C. ... Morris Museum; Museum of Pop Culture; N.
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DeBence Antique Music World Band Organ by Artizan Factories Inc., at the Drake Day Circus at Drake Well Park, August 24, 2013. DeBence Antique Music World is a museum in Franklin, Pennsylvania whose collection contains more than 100 antique mechanical musical instruments, including music boxes, band organs, player pianos, a nickelodeon piano, as well as a number of other antiques.
The exhibition path moves through plucked string instruments, bowed, winds, harps, lyres and also includes keyboards.. Amongst the most important instruments in the collection is the violin known as the 'Tuscan Strad' built by Antonio Stradivari in 1690 together with the four instruments forming the so-called 'Maedicean quintet', built for the Grand Prince Ferdinando de' Medici.
The Yale Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments, a division of the Yale School of Music, is a museum in New Haven, Connecticut.It was established in 1900 by a gift of historic keyboard instruments from Morris Steinert, and later enriched in 1960 and 1962 by the acquisition of the Belle Skinner and Emil Herrmann collections.