- Whittaker's Musical Museum - http://www.musical-museum.org/
(Waiheke Island, New Zealand) Displays and demonstrates instruments from the last 400 years.
- Music House Museum - http://www.musichouse.org/
(Acme, MI: near Traverse City) preserves and restores mechanical musical instruments.
- Moeginomura Museum Hall of Halls - http://www.moeginomura.co.jp/e-hall.html
Collects and exhibits automatic musical instruments, antique music boxes and traditional Japanese tableware. Located in Kiyosato, Japan.
- Finchcocks Living Museum of Music - http://www.finchcocks.co.uk
Kent, UK: Keyboard instruments from 18th and 19th centuries, chamber organs, harpsichords, virginals, spinets and clavichords.
- National Music Museum - http://www.usd.edu/smm/
At the University of South Dakota, this collection includes instruments from virtually all cultures and historical periods.
- Ukulele Hall of Fame Museum - http://ukulele.org/
Describes ukulele history: includes events, artists, membership information, and online shop.
- Musikhistorisk Museum - http://www.musikhistoriskmuseum.dk/
The Museum of Musical Instruments in Copenhagen. Information in English and Danish.
- Mandolin Melodies Museum - http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~mandolin/
Nagoya, Japan; exhibits instruments and recordings from around the world.
- The Musical Museum - http://www.musicalmuseum.co.uk
London, England: Describes it collection of automatic mechanical musical instruments; activities; volunteer opportunities; and links.
- Cobbe Collection, The - http://cobbecollection.co.uk/
Surrey, England: Collection of historic keyboard instruments with composer connections. Recital programme.
- The Band Museum - http://bandmuseum.tripod.com/
Pine Bluff, Arkansas: includes pictures of vintage and antique band instruments.
- World Of Accordions Museum - http://museum.accordionworld.org
Featuring about 1000 instruments, artifacts, a gift shop, and a library. Includes events, publications, memberships, and volunteer opportunities. Located in Superior, Wisconsin, United States.
- Musikinstrumentenmuseum der Universität Leipzig (Germany) - http://www.uni-leipzig.de/museum/musik/index2.html
Museum established in the early 1900s, largely destroyed in World War II, and rebuilt since then to provide an accurate perspective of the development of musical instruments in Europe from Renaissance up until the present day. Images and sound files of select pieces are available on site.
- Stiftelsen Musikkulturens Främjande - The Nydahl Collection - http://members.chello.se/smf/Pages/ebody.html
Located in Stockholm, Sweden. Collects and maintains an archive of music manuscripts, scores, letters and other music-related material. In addition to its archives, the Museum houses a collection of approximately 550 old instruments, of which 75 are keyboards, such as harpsichords, clavichords, pianos and organs dating from the 16th century up to the 1940's. Two hundred of these are on permanent display in six rooms, of which three are furnished in period.
- Ringve Museum - http://www.ringve.com/
National museum (Norway) for music and musical instruments with collections from all over the world. Located at Ringve Manor in Trondheim.
- Kenneth G. Fiske Museum of the Claremont Colleges - http://www.cuc.claremont.edu/fiske/index.asp
Houses one of the most diverse collections of musical instruments in the United States, containing over 1,400 American, European and ethnic instruments dating from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Includes photos, an indexed list and the location.
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