List of music museums

This is a list of music museums worldwide. The list contains notable former and existing 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

Armenia

• House-Museum of Aram Khachaturian, dedicated to Aram Khachaturian – Jerevan
• 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[1]
• Slim Dusty Centre - Kempsey, New South Wales[2]
• Grainger Museum, dedicated to Percy Grainger – University of Melbourne, Victoria
• Performing Arts Collection – Melbourne
• Arts Centre Melbourne, musical collection – Melbourne
• ARIA Hall of Fame – Melbourne
• Australian Jazz Museum – Wantirna, Victoria

Austria

Pasqualati-Haus

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

dedicated to Anton Bruckner

• Anton-Bruckner-Museum – Ansfelden
• Kronstorfer Brucknerzimmer – Kronstorf

dedicated to Johannes Brahms and/or Joseph Haydn

• Brahmsmuseum 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
• Birth house of Franz Schubert – 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
• 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

Belarus

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

Belgium

East and West Flanders

• Jazz Center Flanders, with jazz museum – Dendermonde
• Stedelijk Museum "Peter Benoit", 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[3]
• 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[4]
• 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[5]

Nova Scotia and Quebec

• Celtic Music Interpretive Centre – Judique[6]
• Hank Snow Home Town Museum, dedicated to Hank Snow – Liverpool[7]
• Musée de l'Accordéon – Montmagny[8]
• 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[9]
• Franco-Ontarian Folklore Centre – Greater Sudbury[10]
• 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[11]

Cape Verde

• Museu da Tabanka, dedicated to tabanka music – Assomada

China

Choir Organ Museum

• Choir Organ Museum – Gulangyu, Fujian[12]
• Gulangyu Piano Museum – Gulangyu, Fujian[13]
• Heilongjiang Music Museum, musical instruments – Harbin, province of Heilongjiang[14]
• Drum Tower of Xi'an – Xi'an, province Shaanxi
• Wuhan Museum, musical instruments collection – Wuhan, province of Hubei

Czech Republic

Antonín Dvořák Museum, Prague

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

Villa Bertramka

• Centrum Bohuslava Martinů, dedicated to Bohuslav Martinů – Polička
• Bertramka (temporally closed)[15], 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

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
• Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra National de Paris – 9th arrondissement
• Musée du Hard Rock Café – 9th arrondissement[16]
• 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[17]

Josephine Baker Museum

Other museums

• Musée de la musique – Anduze[18]
• Josephine Baker Museum, Château des Milandes, dedicated to Josephine Baker – Castelnaud-la-Chapelle[19]
• Museum of Musical Instruments, Céret – Céret
• Musée de l'art forain et de la musique mécanique – Conflans-en-Jarnisy[20]
• 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[21]
• Maisons Satie, dedicated to Erik Satie – Honfleur[22]
• Musée européen d'art campanaire – L'Isle-Jourdain, Gers
• Musée du piano de Limoux – Limoux
• Musée de la musique mécanique – Mirecourt[23]
• Musée de la lutherie et de l'archèterie française – 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[24]
• 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

House Wahnfried

• 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

Mecklenburgisches Orgelmuseum

• 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

Handel House

Musical Instruments Museum, Markneukirchen

• 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

Philharmonic Society of Corfu

• 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[25]

Hungary

Budapest

• Béla Bartók Memorial House, dedicated to Béla Bartók[26]
• Frans Liszt Memorial Museum, dedicated to Franz Liszt
• Zoltán Kodály Memorial Museum, dedicated to Zoltán Kodály
• Museum of Music History[27]

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[28]

India

Melody World Wax Museum, Mysore

• Melody World Wax Museum, musical instruments collection (tribal, ethnic, folk & modern) − Mysore[29]
• Karnataka Folk Museum, musical collection – Bangalore[30]

Indonesia

• Museum Musik Indonesia – Malang

Iran

• Tehran Museum of Music – Tehran[31]

Ireland

• Irish Rock N Roll Museum – Dublin[32]
• Irish Music Hall of Fame – Dublin (1999-2001)[33]

Israel

• the Hebrew Music Museum - Jerusalem
• Violins of Hope – Tel Aviv

Italy

Museo Wagner, Venice

Northern Italy[34][35][36]

• Museo Pietro Abbà-Cornaglia – Alessandria
• Gustav Mahler Stube, with memorial dedicated to Gustav Mahler – Altschluderbach, Toblach
• Museo donizettiano, 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 di 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[34][35][36]

• 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
• Torre del Lago Puccini, estate of Giacomo Puccini – Viareggio

Southern Italy

• Museum of Multiethnic Musical Instruments "Fausto Cannone" – Alcamo
• Museum of Castle of Gesualdo, dedicated to Carlo Gesualdo – Gesualdo[37], 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

• Bob Marley Museum, dedicated to Bob Marley – Nine Mile
• Bob Marley Mausoleum – Kingston[38]

Japan

Belgium Organ Museum

Tokyo

• Michio Miyagi Memorial Hall, dedicated to Michio Miyagi
• Orugōru no Chiisana Hakubutsukan (?-2013), mechanical musical instruments[39]
• Museum of the Musashino Academia Musicae[40]
• Min-On Musical Museum

Other museums

• Mandolin Melodies Museum – Aichi
• Kawaguchiko Music Box Forest – Fujikawaguchiko
• Musical Instruments Museum – Hamamatsu
• Musicbox Museum Izu – Izu, Itō[41]
• Rokko Musicbox Museum – Kobe[42]
• The Museum, successor of Belgium Organ Museum – Matsushima[43]
• 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
• 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[44]
• National Musical Library – Mexico City

Mongolia

• Mongolian Theatre Museum – Ulaanbaatar

Netherlands

C+B Museum – Grolloo

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

Beatles Museum – Alkmaar

Sound and Vision – Hilversum

West

• Beatles Museum Alkmaar, dedicated to The Beatles – Alkmaar
• 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
• 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

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[45]

Norway

Villa Lysøen

• 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

José Gullas Halad Museum

• 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[46]
• Stringed Instruments Museum, string instruments museum – Tebosa
• Museu Fernando Lopes-Graça, dedicated to Fernando Lopes-Graça – Tomar[47]

Puerto Rico

Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña

• Casa del Compositor Héctor Flores Osuna, dedicated to Héctor Flores Osuna – Caguas[48]
• Casa del Trovador – Caguas[49]
• Centro Musical Criollo José Ignacio Quintón, dedicated to José Ignacio Quintón – Caguas[50]
• 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[51]

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

Museum of Music and Time

Moscow

• Glinka Museum
• Harmonica Museum, dedicated to Alfred Mirek[52]
• Museum of Vladimir Vysotsky at Taganka Square, dedicated to Vladimir Vysotsky[53]

Saint Petersburg

• Temple of Love, Peace and Music, dedicated to John Lennon[54]
• Kamchatka, house of Viktor Tsoi[55]
• Museum of the Alexandrinsky Theatre[56]
• St.Petersburg State Museum, and branches:[57]
  • House and Museum of Feodor Chaliapin[57]
  • The Museum of Music and Music Instruments at the Count Sheremetev Palace[57]
  • Rimsky-Korsakov Apartment and Museum, dedicated to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov[57]
  • The Samoilov Actors' Family Museum[57]

Other museums

• Museum of Sergei Taneyev, dedicated to Sergei Taneyev – Dyudkovo, Zvenigorod[58]
• Museum Music and Time – Yaroslavl[59]
• Tchaikovsky State House-Museum, dedicated to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky en Sergei Taneyev – Klin
• Rockmuseum – Ufa[60]
• 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

Slovenia

• Birth House of Hugo Wolf – Ljubljana[61]
• The Rolling Stones Museum, dedicated to The Rolling Stones – Portorož

South Africa

• Music of the Caab Centre – Franschhoek[62]
• Adler Museum of the History of Music – Johannesburg[63]

South Korea

• Ureuk Museum, course of music in Gaya and Silla – Goryeong, North Gyeongsang Province[64]
• Korean Folk Village – Yongin

Spain

Museu de la Música de Barcelona

House-Museum of Concha Piquer

Museo del Baile Flamenco

• Valldemossa Charterhouse, living of Frédéric Chopin – Valldemossa, Mallorca
• Casa–Museo del Timple, local string instruments (timples) – Teguise, Lanzarote[65]

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[66]
• International Bagpipe Museum – Gijón
• Soinuenea–Herri Musikaren Txokoa, Basque music – Oiartzun, Basque Country[67]

North-east

• Museo del Órgano, dedicated to organs – Agüero, Aragon[68]
• Museo Nino Bravo, dedicated to Nino Bravo – Aielo de Malferit, Valencia[69]
• Museu de la Música de Barcelona – Barcelona
• Rock Museum – Barcelona
• Museo de Música Étnica – Busot, Valencia[70]
• Museu Isaac Albéniz, dedicated to Isaac Albéniz – Camprodon, Catalonia[71]
• Museo Pablo Sarasate, dedicated to Pablo Sarasate – Pamplona, Navarra[72]
• Casa-Museo Julián Gayarre, dedicated to Julián Gayarre – Roncal, Navarra[73]
• Museu Pau Casals, dedicated to Pablo Casals – el Vendrell, Catalonia[74]
• House-Museum of Concha Piquer, dedicated to Concha Piquer – Valencia

South

• Museo de la Música Étnica, music cultures worldwide – Barranda, Murcia[75]
• Casa Museo Manuel de Falla, dedicated to Manuel de Falla – Granada[76]
• Casa Museo Andrés Segovia, dedicated to Andrés Segovia – Linares, Jaén[77]
• Museo de Raphael, dedicated to Raphael – Linares, Jaén[78]
• 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[79]
• Museo de Sonidos del Mundo / Museo de Instrumentos – Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos[80]
• Museo Sara Montiel, dedicated to Sara Montiel – Campo de Criptana, Ciudad Real[81]
• Casa Museo José Padilla, dedicated to José Padilla Sánchez – Madrid[82]
• Fundación Victoria y Joaquín Rodrigo, dedicated to Victoria and Joaquín Rodrigo – Madrid[83]
• Museo Hazen, piano collection – Las Rozas de Madrid, Madrid[84]
• Museo de la Música – Urueña, Valladolid[85]

Sweden

ABBA: The Museum

Stockholm

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

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[86]
• 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

Chimei Museum

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

Tajikistan

• Gurminj Museum of Musical Instruments – Dushanbe

Tunisia

Ennejma Ezzahra Palace

• 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[87]
• 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 – Mayfair
• Eel Pie Island Museum – Twickenham, Richmond upon Thames
• Museum of Army Music – Kneller Hall, Whitton, Richmond upon Thames
• The Royal College of Music Museum – South Kensington

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

England (other museums)

• St. Albans Organ Museum – St Albans[88]
• Herschel Museum of Astronomy, musical exhibition, named after William and Caroline Herschel – Bath
• Holburne Museum – Bath
• City of Birmingham Museum – Birmingham
• 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[89]
• Mechanical Museum and Doll Collection – Chichester[90]
• Paul Corins Magnificent Music Machines (1967-2013) – Liskerad, Cornwall[91]
• Mechanical Music Museum – Cotton[92]
• 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[93][94] 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[95]
• Bate Collection of Musical Instruments – Oxford
• Ashmolean Museum, musical instruments – Oxford
• Pinchbeck, The Burtey Fen Collection, collection pipe organs – Pinchbeck[96]
• 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[97]

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

Muscle Shoals

• Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame – Birmingham
• W. C. Handy Home, Museum & Library, dedicated to W. C. Handy – Florence[98]
• Hank Williams Boyhood Home & Museum, dedicated to Hank Williams – Georgiana[99]
• The Hank Williams Museum, dedicated to Hank Williams – Montgomery[100]
• Muscle Shoals Sound Studio Museum – Sheffield
• National Band Association Hall of Fame of Distinguished Band Conductors, Troy University – Troy[101]
• Alabama Music Hall of Fame – Tuscumbia
• Commodore Museum, dedicated to the Commodores – Tuskegee[102]

Arizona

• Musical Instrument Museum – Phoenix

Arkansas

• Delta Cultural Center – Helena
• Guitar Museum – Jacksonville[103]
• Ozark Folk Center – Mountain View

California

Crystal Palace

• 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[104]
• 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[105]
• Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments – New Haven

Florida

• Latin Music Hall of Fame Museum – Miami[106]
• 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

Allman Brothers Museum

• Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame – Atlanta
• Trap Music Museum, dedicated to rapper T.I. – Atlanta[107]
• 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[108]

Illinois

• Place de la Musique – Barrington Hills
• Rock N Roll McDonald's (1983–2018, as restaurant museum) – Chicago[109]
• Illinois Rock & Roll Museum on Rt. 66 – Joliet, IL[110]
• David Adler Music and Arts Center – Libertyville
• Sousa Archives and Center for American Music – Urbana

Indiana

• Songbook Exhibit Gallery, Great American Songbook Foundation – Carmel
• Great American Songbook Foundation – Carmel
• Zaharakos Ice Cream Parlor and Museum – Columbus[111]
• Dr. Ted's Musical Marvels, named after Ted Waflart – Huntingburg[112]
• Rhythm! Discovery Center – Indianapolis[113]

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[114]
• River Music Experience – Davenport
• Music Man Square – Mason City[115]
• Bily Clocks Museum, partly dedicated to Antonín Dvořák – Spillville
• Surf Ballroom & Museum - Clear Lake, Iowa[116]

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

Delta Music Museum

• Louisiana Music Hall of Fame – Baton Rouge
• Cajun Music Hall of Fame, dedicated to Cajun music – Eunice[117]
• 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

Michigan

Motown Museum

• 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[118]
• Carnegie Center, Port Huron Museum, musical collection – Port Huron[119]
• Tuba Museum, dedicated to the tuba – Okemos[120]

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[121]
• Delta Blues Museum – Clarksdale
• Rock & Blues Museum – Clarksdale[122]
• The Grammy Museum Mississippi – Cleveland
• Greenwood Blues Heritage Museum & Gallery – Greenwood[123]
• Robert Johnson Blues Museum, dedicated to Robert Johnson – Crystal Springs[124]
• Mississippi Music Museum – Hazlehurst[125]
• 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[126]
• Hartley Peavey Visitor Center, dedicated to Peavey – Meridian[127]
• Highland Park, dedicated to Jimmie Rodgers – Meridian
• Charles H. Templeton, Sr. Music Museum, musical collection – Starkville[128]
• Gateway to the Blues Visitors Center and Museum – Tunica[129]
• Elvis Presley Birthplace, dedicated to Elvis Presley – Tupelo
• Howlin' Wolf Museum, dedicated to Howlin' Wolf – West Point[130]

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 – Saint 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[131]

New Jersey

• Morris Museum – Morristown
• Grammy Museum Experience – Newark

New York

Louis Armstrong House

New York City and Long Island

• 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
• National Museum of Hip-Hop – Manhattan[132]
• 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[133]
• Original American Kazoo Factory and Museum, dedicated the kazoo – Eden[134]
• Fiddler's Hall of Fame and Museum, dedicated to fiddlers – Redfield[135]
• Empire State Theater Musical Instrument Museum – Syracuse[136]

North Carolina

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

North Dakota

• Ray Opera House Museum – Ray, North Dakota[137]

Ohio

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

• Ted Lewis Museum, dedicated to Ted Lewis – Circleville[138]
• 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[139]
• Washington Irving Trail Museum, country music collection, named after Washington Irving – Ripley[140]
• Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Tulsa
• Woody Guthrie Center, dedicated to Woody Guthrie and includes the archives of Phil Ochs – Tulsa

Pennsylvania

Bayernhof Music Museum

• Liberty Bell Museum – Allentown
• Schuman Instrument Collection – Southern Oregon University, Ashland
• DeBence Antique Music World – Franklin
• Wolf Museum of Music and Art – Lancaster County[141]
• American Treasure Tour – Oaks, Montgomery County
• Martin Guitar Museum, named after C. F. Martin & Company – Nazareth
• New Holland Band Museum – New Holland[142]
• 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

Part of the Schuman Instrument Collection of the Southern Oregon University

South Carolina

• The Kazoo Museum, dedicated to the kazoo – Beaufort, South Carolina
• Carolina Music Museum – Heritage Green, South Carolina[143]
• Sigal Music Museum formerly the Carolina Music Museum – Heritage Green, South Carolina[144]

South Dakota

• National Music Museum – Vermillion, South Dakota

Tennessee

Graceland

• West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center, musical museum and dedication to Tina Turner – Brownsville[145]
• 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[146]
• International Rock-a-billy Hall of Fame – Jackson[147]
• Mountain Music Museum – Kingsport
• James D. Vaughan Museum, dedicated to James David Vaughan – Lawrenceburg[148]
• 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[149]
• 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[150]
• 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
• Museum of Appalachia, 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[151]
• South Austin Museum of Popular Culture – Austin
• Texas Music Museum – Austin[152]
• Texas Polka Music Museum – Austin[153]
• Heart of Texas Country Music Museum – Brady[154]
• 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[155]
• Texas Musicians Museum – Hillsboro
• Jukebox Museum – Houston[156]
• Texas Musicians Museum (?-2018) – Irving
• Buddy Holly Center, dedicated to Buddy Holly and Texan music – Lubbock
• Blues & History Museum – Navasota[157]
• Smitty's Juke Box Museum – Pharr[158]
• Freddy Fender Museum, named after Freddy Fender – San Benito[159]
• Texas Conjunto Music Museum – San Benito[160]
• Sherman Jazz Museum – Sherman[161]
• Bob Wills Museum, dedicated to Bob Wills – Turkey[159]
• Roy Orbison Museum, dedicated to Roy Orbison – Wink[162]

Utah

• Utah Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum – Ogden

Virginia

Birthplace of Country Music

• Birthplace of Country Music Museum – Bristol, Virginia
• Ralph Stanley Museum, dedicated to Ralph Stanley – Clintwood, Virginia
• Blue Ridge Institute & Museum, musical collection – Ferrum, Virginia[163]
• Blue Ridge Music Center – Galax
• Carter Family Fold, dedicated to the Carter Family – Hiltons, Scott County
• Virginia Musical Museum – Williamsburg, Virginia

Washington

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

West Virginia

• Gorby's Vintage Instrument Museum, South Charleston, West Virginia[164]

Washington, D.C.

• O Street Museum Foundation

Uzbekistan

• Memorial house museum of Tamara Khanum – Tashkent

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52. Another City, Alfred Mirek museum «Russian Harmonica», 16 September 20111
53. MOS, In memory of Vladimir Vysotsky: Taganka Museum to be shortly overhauled, 26 January 2018
54. The Times, Kolya Vasin obituary, 20 September 2018
55. Calvert Journal, Remembering Viktor Tsoi: why the rebellious rock poet is still a hero for our time, 15 August 2017
56. Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia, Museum of Theatre and Music Art
57. Saint Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music, St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music, and branches
58. Dyudkovo, Museum of Sergei Taneyev (history
59. The Guardian, Russia’s Golden Ring: day trips from Moscow into history and heritage, 12 August 2016
60. Komsomolskaya Pravda, Музыкант Сергей Бугаев после того, как нашелся паспорт Виктора Цоя, предложил открыть рок-музей, 25 April 2018
61. Canada Free Press, The Shared Slovenian Ancestors of Herbert von Karajan and Hugo Wolf, 4 April 2008
62. Music in Africa, Community music centres – Music van de Caab
63. Joburg, Adler Museum of the history of music
64. Stripes Korea, Daegaya Museum, mention of „Ureuk Museum“
65. Crónicas del Lanzarote, La Casa-Museo del Timple acoge la fusión de Alexis Lemes al timple y Javier Infante a la guitarra, 14 November 2018
66. El Diario Montanés, Una nueva pasarela abre el bosque de las secuoyas a las personas con discapacidad, 9 February 2016
67. Noticias de Navarra, Musika Bulegoa entregó sus premios en Baluarte, 20 November 2018
68. Radio Huesca, Éxito de la 10ª ruta del madroño celebrada en la Galliguera, 21 October 2018
69. Las Provincias, 45 años sin Nino Bravo, 16 April 2018
70. La Verdad, Un fascinante viaje musical a través de los cinco continentes, 22 March 2016
71. Cadalario, Libro: 'Suite Albéniz' de Alfonso Alzamora (Turner Publicaciones), 27 August 2018
72. Noticias de Navarra, Pamplona conmemora el fallecimiento de Pablo Sarasate renovando su mausoleo, 14 September 2018
73. Noticias de Navarra, Los museos de Navarra reciben 142.667 visitas en 2017, 1 February 2018
74. Diari de Tarragona, «Todos los catalanes deben visitar el Museu Pau Casals», 11 June 2018
75. La Opinión de Murcia, Mosquera Celtic Band' cierra el ciclo de conciertos 'A la luna de Barranda', 23 August 2018
76. Ideal, Cincuenta años de la casa museo Manuel de Falla de Granada, 17 juli 2015
77. El Mundo, Linares, memoria del toro y la música, 11 April 2018
78. La Vanguardia, Raphael, nombrado Hijo Predilecto de Linares, su ciudad natal, 14 May 2018
79. El Digitál Castillia - La Mancha, Labrador visita los cuarteles de la Guardia Civil en Ajofrín y Orgaz, 11 August 2014
80. Santo Domingo de Silos, Museo Sonidos del Mundo
81. El Mundo, ¡A los molinos!, 5 August 2015
82. ABC, Padilla, el músico que inspiró a Hollywood y que llevó a Chaplin a los tribunales, 10 June 2014
83. La Rioja, La hija de Joaquín Rodrigo desea que se conozcan más obras de su padre en el X aniversario, 2 January 2009
84. Noticias Bancaria, Museo de Hazen ofrece visitas virtuales a su Colección del Piano, 30 April 2014
85. Radio Huesca, Música de circo para despedir Espacio Catedral, 21 Augustus 2018
86. Reformatorisch Dagblad, Harmoniummuseum Liestal: Zwitsers staaltje van muzikale nostalgie, 21 October 2017
87. Londonist, West London's Best Unsung Museums
88. The herts Advertiser, The Feastival is here! Don’t miss the highlight of the St Albans Food & Drink Festival, 24 September 2018
89. Coventry Observer, Music museum birthday, Hazel O'Connor and Cockney Rejects, Pete Chambers, 10 November 2018
90. The Music Box, Renaissance discs
91. Trip Advisor, Magnificent Music Machines
92. Association for Suffolk Museums Mechanical Music Museum
93. Finchcocks History
94. Independent, The glorious life and times of Finchcocks – the living museum of music, 28 October 2017
95. Radio Museum, Keith Hardings's World of Mechanical Music
96. The Cinema Organ Society, Pinchbeck, The Burtey Fen Collection
97. Derry Journal, Nerve Centre project awarded £900,000, 21 August 2018
98. US News, Historic Home of Blues Artist W.C. Handy Returned to Family, 27 July 2018
99. Alabama News Center, Ole Georgiana: Hank Williams’ hometown hangs onto legacy of music star, 7 June 2018
100. Daily Memphian, Montgomery to Memphis, 11 October 2018
101. Digital Journal, Brittney Wilkerson promoted to Senior Publicist at PLA Media, 4 February 2018
102. Alabama News Center, Few towns had bigger impact on modern African-American history than Tuskegee, 12 March 2017
103. Arkansas Times, Jacksonville Guitar
104. Sactown Magazine, Sacramento's Rock & Radio Museum seeks new home, 10 January 2018
105. Gluseum, 2018 Summer Concert Schedule, 12 June 2018
106. Billboard, Billboard Magazine's 1996 Latin music Awards Scheduled for May 1 at the Historical Gusman Center for Performing Arts, 2 March 1966
107. Billboard, T.I. Unveils Nipsey Hussle Tribute Exhibit at Atlanta's Trap Music Museum, 15 August 2019
108. NBC, International music fest to honor Little Richard coming in 2020, 5 December 2019
109. Kamin, Blair (August 9, 2018). "Column: McDonald's new River North restaurant: Not ketchup-red or mustard-yellow, but green — and not quite cooked". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
110. Patch, IL Rock & Roll Museum On Route 66 Unveils Joliet Location, 4 May 2019
111. Indy Star, Old-school ice cream: Soda fountains that serve with style, 8 July 2015
112. Dubois County Herald, Musically Marvellous, 6 January 2018
113. Indy Star, Ultimate Indiana bucket list: 50+ things to do in Indianapolis and around the state , 30 July 2018
114. KMA Land, 43rd Annual Glenn Miller Festival kicks off in Clarinda, 7 June 2018
115. KIMT, Visitor spending reaches record high in Cerro Gordo County, 11 October 2018
116. Journal Sentinel, Music fans make pilgrimage to Buddy Holly plane crash site and Surf Ballroom in Iowa, 25 January 2019
117. KATC, The 30th annual Le Cajun Awards and Music Festival begins tonight, 16 August 2018
118. Cision, International Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Museum 10th Anniversary Dazzles , 8 December 2006
119. Port Huron Times Herald, Volunteer Fair will be Oct. 2 at Carnegie Center, 16 September 2018
120. Lansing State Journal, Douglas J, True North Development plan to invest $100 million in downtown Okemos, 24 May 2018
121. Jackson Clarion Ledger, Retiree, 74, can't slow down, 5 April 2015
122. Blues Magazine, Reizen door het land van de blues, 20 November 2016
123. Stephen A. King, I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now: Blues Tourism in the Mississippi Delta, 2011
124. Algemeen Dagblad, De blues in een camper in het zuidoosten van de VS, 13 September 2018
125. Copia County Courier, Mississippi Music Museum opens in Hazlehurst, 16 June 2014
126. Jackson Clarion Ledger, Delta saxophonist, Howlin' Wolf sideman Eddie Shaw dies, 1 February 2018
127. Tumbleweed South, 48 Hours in Meridian, Mississippi, January 2011
128. Mississippi State University Library, Charles H. Templeton Music Museum Overview
129. Memphis, Business Journal, Graceland launches tours to Tupelo, Delta region, 15 November 2017
130. Daily Times Leader, Robinson, King's band headline Blues Fest, 27 July 2018
131. Las Vegas Sun, Elvis Presley: A love affair, 14 February 2010
132. New York Times, Hip-Hop Pioneers Plan a Museum for the Bronx, 12 March 2014
133. Huffington Post, “Which One of You Nuts Has Got Any Guts?”, 31 December 2017
134. Atlas Obscura, Original American Kazoo Company
135. Journal & Republican, Fiddlers Hall of Fame to host end-of-season event, 27 September 2018
136. Syracuse Journal-Democrat, Travel: Montreal offers taste of English, French civilizations, 21 September 2018
137. Ann Ronald, GhostWest: Reflections Past and Present, page 93, 2002
138. Syncopated Times, Ted Lewis: Circleville Honors Its Favorite Son, 1 July
139. News OK, OKC's American Banjo Museum opening Jim Henson exhibit, 31 Augustus 2018
140. News OK, Washington Irving Trail Museum, 18 May 2006
141. Statesman Journal, Looking for weekend plans? Here are five things to do in Salem, 11 October 2018
142. The Ringgold Band of Reading, Ringgold Band Partners with New Holland Band Museum, Fall 2006
143. Carolina Music Museum, about
144. Carolina Music Museum, about
145. The Chattanoogan, This Week’s Tennessee Tourism Round Up, 7 September 2018
146. Atlanta Magazine, Star Turn: Loretta Lynn, 30 September 2018
147. Jackson Sun, Carl Perkins honored with Lifetime Achievement Award, 9 October 2018
148. Lawrenceburg Government, James D. Vaughn Gospel Music Museum
149. Lebanon Democrat, Tennessee State Museum traveling exhibit arrives at Historic Granville, 17 September 2018
150. Vice, Margo Price, True American Badass, Wants Her Country to Do Better, 20 October 2017
151. Caller, Tejano Talks #15: Servando Hinojosa,Tejano artist, 18 July 2018
152. Texas Monthly, Dear Mark Cuban, Help Us Save Texas Music, 25 May 2018
153. Wide Open Country, 15 Small Texas Towns You Need to Visit,
154. Wide Open Country, One of the Nation's Best Country Music Museums is in This Small Texas Town
155. Broadway World, LeftyFest Music Festival to Honor Country Music Hall of Famer, Lefty Frizzell, 10 April 2018
156. Manta, Jukebox Museum
157. Houston Chronicle, The 50 Greatest Texas Musicians Ever
158. Austin Chronicle, Day Trips, 7 November 2008
159. Houston Chronicle, Push for Texas music museum in Houston revived, 5 June 2017
160. San Benito News, Commission tables Museum design, 18 July 2014
161. Herald Democrat, Doc Severinsen headlines Sherman’s first Jazz Festival, 14 April 2018
162. Göteborgs-Posten, Det våras för Roy Orbison, 21 November 2017
163. The Roanoke Star, Ferrum to Host Moonshine Heritage Car Show June 9th, 4 June 2018
164. World Guides, Charleston Museums