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Argentina

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Mina Clavero Mina Clavero is a municipality in San Alberto Department in Córdoba Province, Argentina. It forms the municipality of same name and is the tourist center of Traslasierra valley. It is characterized by its natural landscapes, beaches and night ...
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Academia Nacional del Tango de la República Argentina Academia Nacional del Tango de la República Argentina is an institution in Buenos Aires, Argentina, located in the Avenida de Mayo above the Café Tortoni. Overview The museum was established on June 28, 1990, by national decree with the aim of ...
Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...
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La Plata La Plata () is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. According to the , it has a population of 654,324 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 787,294 inhabitants. It is located 9 kilometers (6 miles) inland from th ...
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The Beatles The Beatles were an English Rock music, rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, that comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the Cultural impact of the Beatles, most influential band of al ...
– Buenos Aires


Armenia

* House-Museum of Aram Khachaturian, dedicated to
Aram Khachaturian Aram Ilyich Khachaturian (; rus, Арам Ильич Хачатурян, , ɐˈram ɨˈlʲjitɕ xətɕɪtʊˈrʲan, Ru-Aram Ilyich Khachaturian.ogg; hy, Արամ Խաչատրյան, ''Aram Xačʿatryan''; 1 May 1978) was a Soviet and Armenia ...
Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i ...
* Charles Aznavour Museum, dedicated to
Charles Aznavour Charles Aznavour ( , ; born Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian, hy, Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնավուրեան, ; 22 May 1924 – 1 October 2018) was a French-Armenian singer, lyricist, actor and diplomat. Aznavour was known for his dist ...
Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i ...


Australia

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National Film and Sound Archive The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national co ...
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Australian Capital Territory The Australian Capital Territory (commonly abbreviated as ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) until 1938, is a landlocked federal territory of Australia containing the national capital Canberra and some surrounding township#Aust ...
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Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute The Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, usually referred to as Tandanya, is an art museum located on Grenfell Street in Adelaide, South Australia. It specialises in promoting Indigenous Australian art, including visual art, music ...
Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...
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South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest o ...
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National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "maint ...
Canberra Canberra ( ) is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The ci ...
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Australian Capital Territory The Australian Capital Territory (commonly abbreviated as ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) until 1938, is a landlocked federal territory of Australia containing the national capital Canberra and some surrounding township#Aust ...
* Australian Country Music Hall of Fame – Tamworth,
New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es ...
* Slim Dusty Centre – Kempsey, New South Wales *
Grainger Museum The Grainger Museum is a repository of items documenting the life, career and music of the composer, folklorist, educator and pianist Percy Grainger (b. Melbourne, 1882; d. White Plains, New York, 1961), located in the grounds of the University o ...
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Percy Grainger Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who lived in the United States from 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. In the course of a long an ...
University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb ...
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Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ...
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Australian Performing Arts Collection The Australian Performing Arts Collection at Arts Centre Melbourne, formerly known as Performing Arts Museum (PAM), is the largest specialist performing arts collection in Australia, with over 780,000 items relating to the history of circus, danc ...
Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/ Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metro ...
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Arts Centre Melbourne Arts Centre Melbourne, originally known as the Victorian Arts Centre and briefly called the Arts Centre, is a performing arts centre consisting of a complex of theatres and concert halls in the Melbourne Arts Precinct, located in the central ...
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ARIA Hall of Fame In music, an aria ( Italian: ; plural: ''arie'' , or ''arias'' in common usage, diminutive form arietta , plural ariette, or in English simply air) is a self-contained piece for one voice, with or without instrumental or orchestral accompani ...
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Australian Jazz Museum The Australian Jazz Museum (AJM), incorporating the Victorian Jazz Archive (VJA), is located in Wantirna, Victoria. It is an incorporated association arising out of a meeting held in Sydney on 23 June 1996 to address the growing concern among ...
Wantirna Wantirna is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 24 km east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Knox Local government areas of Victoria, loca ...
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Austria

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Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...
* Beethoven-Haus
Krems an der Donau Krems an der Donau () is a town of 23,992 inhabitants in Austria, in the federal state of Lower Austria. It is the fifth-largest city of Lower Austria and is approximately west of Vienna. Krems is a city with its own statute (or ''Statutarst ...
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Baden bei Wien Baden (German for " Baths"; Central Bavarian: ''Bodn''), unofficially distinguished from other Badens as Baden bei Wien (Baden near Vienna), is a spa town in Austria. It serves as the capital of Baden District in the state of Lower Austria. Lo ...
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Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...
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Floridsdorf Floridsdorf (; Central Bavarian: ''Fluridsduaf'') is the 21st district of Vienna (german: 21. Bezirk, Floridsdorf), located in the northern part of the city and comprising seven formerly independent communities: Floridsdorf, Donaufeld, Greater Je ...
, Vienna * , musical collection – Floridsdorf * – Vienna * – Vienna * – Vienna * Beethoven-Haus Probusgasse – Vienna dedicated to
Anton Bruckner Josef Anton Bruckner (; 4 September 182411 October 1896) was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-Ger ...
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Anton Bruckner Museum The Anton Bruckner Museum is a museum about the composer Anton Bruckner (1824–1896), in Ansfelden, near Linz in Upper Austria. The building is the composer's birthplace. Description Bruckner's life The museum was originally a school building, ...
Ansfelden Ansfelden is a town in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. The rivers Traun and Krems run through the municipality. The town is perhaps best known for being the birthplace of the composer and organist Anton Bruckner. Ansfelden has two museu ...
* – Kronstorf dedicated to
Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...
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Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn ( , ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have le ...
* Brahms Museum, Mürzzuschlag
Mürzzuschlag Mürzzuschlag is a town in northeastern Styria, Austria, the capital of the former Mürzzuschlag District. It is located on the Mürz river near the Semmering Pass, the border with the state of Lower Austria, about southwest of Vienna. The popu ...
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Eisenstadt Eisenstadt (; hu, Kismarton; hr, Željezni grad; ; sl, Železno, Austro-Bavarian: ''Eisnstod'') is a city in Austria, the state capital of Burgenland. It had a recorded population on 29 April 2021 of 15,074. In the Habsburg Empire's Kingdom ...
* Haydnkirche – Eisenstadt *
Haydn's birthplace Haydn's birthplace is in Rohrau in Lower Austria. The composer Joseph Haydn was born here in 1732. Today it is a museum. History The farmhouse was built about 1728 by Matthias Haydn, a wheelwright and later a ''Marktrichter'' (village mayor). He ...
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Michael Haydn Johann Michael Haydn (; 14 September 173710 August 1806) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn. Life Michael Haydn was born in 1737 in the Austrian village of Rohrau, near the Hungarian border. ...
Rohrau dedicated to
Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism ...
* Composing hut of Gustav Mahler
Steinbach am Attersee Steinbach am Attersee is a municipality of the Vöcklabruck district in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. It is situated in the Hausruckviertel region on the eastern banks of the Attersee (Lake Atter), part of the Salzkammergut area. History ...
* Composing hut of Gustav Mahler – Maiernigg near Maria Wörth dedicated to
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...
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St. Gilgen Sankt Gilgen (Central Bavarian: ''St. Gieng'') is a village by Lake Wolfgang in the Austrian state of Salzburg, in the Salzkammergut region. History St. Gilgen was first mentioned in documents in 1376. In 1863, shipping on Lake Wolfgang started ...
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Mozart's birthplace Mozart's birthplace (German: or ) was the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at No. 9 Getreidegasse in Salzburg, Austria. The Mozart family resided on the third floor from 1747 to 1773. Mozart himself was born here on 27 January 1756. He was ...
Salzburg Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label=Austro-Bavarian) is the fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872. The town is on the site of the Roman settlement of ''Iuvavum''. Salzburg was founded ...
* , dedicated to the whole family – Salzburg * Mozarthaus
Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...
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Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wo ...
* – Atzenbrugg * Schubert's birthplace
Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...
* – Vienna dedicated to the Strauss family * Museum der Johann Strauss Dynastie, dedicated to the family Strauss –
Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...
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Johann Strauss II Johann Baptist Strauss II (25 October 1825 – 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son (german: links=no, Sohn), was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed ove ...
– Vienna dedicated to
Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, ; ; 13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was as ...
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Mödling Mödling () is the capital of the Austrian district of the same name located approximately 14 km south of Vienna. Mödling lies in Lower Austria's industrial zone (Industrieviertel). The Mödlingbach, a brook which rises in the Vienna Woods ...
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Arnold Schönberg Center The Arnold Schönberg Center, established in 1998 in Vienna, is a repository of Arnold Schönberg's archival legacy and a cultural center that is open to the public. Activities Archive and library, exhibitions, concerts, lectures, workshops and ...
– Vienna dedicated to other composers * , partly dedicated to Franz von SuppéGars am Kamp * Lehár Villa, dedicated to
Franz Lehár Franz Lehár ( ; hu, Lehár Ferenc ; 30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is ''The Merry Widow'' (''Die lustige Witwe''). Life a ...
Bad Ischl Bad Ischl (Austrian German ) is a spa town in Austria. It lies in the southern part of Upper Austria, at the Traun River in the centre of the Salzkammergut region. The town consists of the Katastralgemeinden ''Ahorn'', ''Bad Ischl'', ''Haiden ...
* , dedicated to Carl ZellerSt. Peter in der Au * Liszthaus, dedicated to
Franz Liszt Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...
Raiding * Pleyel Museum, dedicated to
Ignaz Pleyel Ignace Joseph Pleyel (; ; 18 June 1757 – 14 November 1831) was an Austrian-born French composer, music publisher and piano builder of the Classical period. Life Early years He was born in in Lower Austria, the son of a schoolmaster named Ma ...
– Ruppersthal, near Großweikersdorf ;
Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...
(other museums) * , dedicated to Fatty George * Haus der Musik *
Kunsthistorisches Museum The Kunsthistorisches Museum ( "Museum of Art History", often referred to as the "Museum of Fine Arts") is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, it is crowned with an octagonal d ...
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Vienna Technical Museum The Vienna Technical Museum (german: Technisches Museum Wien) is located in Vienna (Austria), in the Penzing district, at Mariahilferstraße 212. The decision to establish a technical museum was made in 1908, and construction of the building sta ...
, musical collection ; Other museums * Eboardmuseum
Klagenfurt Klagenfurt am WörtherseeLandesgesetzblatt 2008 vom 16. Jänner 2008, Stück 1, Nr. 1: ''Gesetz vom 25. Oktober 2007, mit dem die Kärntner Landesverfassung und das Klagenfurter Stadtrecht 1998 geändert werden.'/ref> (; ; sl, Celovec), usually ...
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Silent Night "Silent Night" (german: "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht", links=no, italic=no) is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. It was declared an ...
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Oberndorf bei Salzburg Oberndorf bei Salzburg ( Central Bavarian: ''Owerndorf ba Såizburg'') is a small city in the Austrian state of Salzburg, about 17 km (11 mi) north of the City of Salzburg. It is situated on the river Salzach in the Flachgau district. ...
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Ratten Ratten is a municipality in the district of Weiz in the Austrian state of Styria. Geography Ratten lies about 25 km north of Weiz Weiz () is a town in the eastern part of the Austrian state of Styria. Population International relations ...


Azerbaijan

* Azerbaijan State Museum of Musical Culture
Baku Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world an ...


Belarus

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Czesław Niemen Czesław Niemen (; February 16, 1939 – January 17, 2004), born Czesław Juliusz Wydrzycki, and often credited as just Niemen, was one of the most important and original Polish singer-songwriters and rock balladeers of the 20th century, singing ...
Staryya Vasilishki Staryya Vasilishki ( be, Старыя Васілішкі, russian: Старые Василишки, Starye Vasilishki, pl, 'Stare Wasiliszki', literally: "Old Vasilishki") is a village in Vasilishki Selsoviet, Shchuchyn district, Hrodna Voblast, ...


Belgium

East East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fac ...
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West Flanders West Flanders ( nl, West-Vlaanderen ; vls, West Vloandern; french: (Province de) Flandre-Occidentale ; german: Westflandern ) is the westernmost province of the Flemish Region, in Belgium. It is the only coastal Belgian province, facing the No ...
* Jazz Center Flanders, with
jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...
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Dendermonde Dendermonde (; french: Termonde, ) is a city in the Flemish province of East Flanders in Belgium. The municipality comprises the city of Dendermonde and the towns of Appels, Baasrode, Grembergen, Mespelare, Oudegem, Schoonaarde, and Sint-Gilli ...
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Peter Benoit Huis Peter Benoit Huis (literally ''Peter Benoit House'') is a museum in Harelbeke in West Flanders, Belgium. The museum is dedicated to the work of the Flemish composer and musical educational theorist Peter Benoit (1834-1901).Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaa ...
, dedicated to Peter Benoit
Harelbeke Harelbeke (; vls, Oarlbeke) is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Harelbeke proper and the towns of Bavikhove and Hulste. On January 1, 2019, Harelbeke had a total p ...
* Organ collection Ghysels – Kallo,
Beveren Beveren () is a municipality in the Belgian province of East Flanders which comprises the towns of Beveren, Doel, Haasdonk, Kallo, Kieldrecht, Melsele, Verrebroek and Vrasene. The port of the Waasland (Dutch: ''Waaslandhaven'') is in Beveren ...
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Menen Menen (; french: Menin ; vls, Mêenn or ) is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Menen proper and the towns of Lauwe and Rekkem. The city is situated on the French/ ...
Province of Antwerp * Museum Vleeshuis
Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,
* Harmonium Art museuMKlein-Willebroek *
Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn" The Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn" ( nl, Koninklijke Beiaardschool "Jef Denyn"; informally also the Mechelen carillon school) is a music school in Mechelen, Belgium, that specializes in the carillon. It is the first and largest carillon sch ...
, dedicated to Jef Denyn
Mechelen Mechelen (; french: Malines ; traditional English name: MechlinMechelen has been known in English as ''Mechlin'', from where the adjective ''Mechlinian'' is derived. This name may still be used, especially in a traditional or historical contex ...
* – Voortkapel, Westerlo
Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
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Flemish Brabant Flemish Brabant ( nl, Vlaams-Brabant ; french: Brabant flamand ) is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on (clockwise from the North) the Belgian provinces of Antwerp, Limburg, Liège, Walloon Brabant, Hain ...
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Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
* Musical Instrument Museum – Brussels * –
Gooik Gooik () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. The municipality comprises the towns of Gooik proper, Kester, Leerbeek, Strijland and Oetingen. It is also situated in the Pajottenland. On January 1, 2018 Gooik h ...
* South-West Brabant Museum, collection of cellist François Servais and family –
Halle Halle may refer to: Places Germany * Halle (Saale), also called Halle an der Saale, a city in Saxony-Anhalt ** Halle (region), a former administrative region in Saxony-Anhalt ** Bezirk Halle, a former administrative division of East Germany ** Hal ...
* Jazz Station
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode Saint-Josse-ten-Noode () or Sint-Joost-ten-Node (), often simply called Saint-Josse or Sint-Joost, is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the north-eastern part of the region, it is bordered by the Ci ...
* Brabant Center for Music Traditions
Kampenhout Kampenhout () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. The municipality comprises the towns of Berg, Buken, Kampenhout proper and Nederokkerzeel. On 1 January 2006 Kampenhout had a total population of 10,956. The tota ...
* (1979–1996) – Schaerbeek Limburg * –
Hasselt Hasselt (, , ; la, Hasseletum, Hasselatum) is a Belgian city and municipality, and capital and largest city of the province of Limburg in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is known for its former branding as "the city of taste", as well as i ...
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Peer Peer may refer to: Sociology * Peer, an equal in age, education or social class; see Peer group * Peer, a member of the peerage; related to the term "peer of the realm" Computing * Peer, one of several functional units in the same layer of a ne ...
* Armand Preud'homme Museum (1990–2018), dedicated to
Armand Preud'homme Armand Preud'homme (21 February 1904, in Peer, Belgium, Peer – 7 February 1986, in Brasschaat) was a Belgian componist and organist. Biography Preud'homme studied at the Limburg Organ and Singing School in Hasselt with Arthur Meulemans and at ...
– Peer
Wallonia Wallonia (; french: Wallonie ), or ; nl, Wallonië ; wa, Waloneye or officially the Walloon Region (french: link=no, Région wallonne),; nl, link=no, Waals gewest; wa, link=no, Redjon walone is one of the three regions of Belgium—al ...
* Mr Sax's House, dedicated to
Adolphe Sax Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (; 6 November 1814 – 4 February 1894) was a Belgian inventor and musician who invented the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846. He also invented the saxotromba, saxhorn and saxtuba. He played the f ...
Dinant Dinant () is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Namur, Belgium. On the shores of river Meuse, in the Ardennes, it lies south-east of Brussels, south-east of Charleroi and south of the city of Namur. Dinant is situ ...
* Bell and Carillon Museum (1992–2013) –
Tellin Tellin (; wa, Telin) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium, in the Ardennes. On 1 January 2007 the municipality, which covers 56.64 km², had 2,386 inhabitants, giving a population density of 42.1 ...


Brazil

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Bauru Bauru () is a Brazilian municipality in midwestern region of the state of São Paulo. It is the main city of the mesoregion and microregion of Bauru. The population is 379,297 (2020 est.) in an area of 667.68 km². Established in 189 ...
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Campinas Campinas (, ''Plains'' or ''Meadows'') is a Brazilian municipality in São Paulo State, part of the country's Southeast Region. According to the 2020 estimate, the city's population is 1,213,792, making it the fourteenth most populous Brazilian ...
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Campo Grande Campo Grande (, ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul in the Center-West region of the country. The city is nicknamed ''Cidade Morena'' ("Swarthy City" in Portuguese) because of the reddish-brown colour o ...
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Ceará Ceará (, pronounced locally as or ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is the eighth-largest Brazilian State by population and the 17th by area. It is also one of the ...
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Cuiabá Cuiabá () is the capital city of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. It is located near the geographical centre of South America. Also, it forms the metropolitan area of Mato Grosso, along with the neighbouring town of Várzea Grande. The city ...
* Museu da Imagem e do Som de Alagoas
Maceió Maceió (), formerly sometimes Anglicised as Maceio, is the capital and the largest city of the coastal state of Alagoas, Brazil. The name "Maceió" is an Indigenous term for a spring. Most maceiós flow to the sea, but some get trapped and form la ...
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Minas Gerais Minas Gerais () is a state in Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product (GDP), and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte (literall ...
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Pará Pará is a state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest are the borders of Guyana a ...
* , dedicated to Luiz Gonzaga
Pernambuco Pernambuco () is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. With an estimated population of 9.6 million people as of 2020, making it seventh-most populous state of Brazil and with around 98,148 km², being the ...
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Museu da Imagem e do Som do Rio de Janeiro The Museu da Imagem e do Som do Rio de Janeiro (in English, Rio de Janeiro Museum of Image and Sound) was inaugurated on September 3, 1965, as part of celebrations of the fourth centenary of the city of Rio de Janeiro. The MIS is a museum of the S ...
Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...
* Reggae Maranhão MuseumSão Luís * Villa-Lobos Museum, dedicated to
Heitor Villa-Lobos Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the ...
Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Departamento de Museologia
Museos da imagem e dos Som
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São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound The São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound (in Portuguese, ''Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo'', or ''MIS'') is a public museum of audio-visual works, established in 1970 and located in São Paulo, Brazil. The museum was founded as a result ...
São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for ' Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaW ...


Burkina Faso

* Musée de Manega, musical collection – Oubritenga * National Musical Museum
Ouagadougou Ouagadougou ( , , ) is the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso and the administrative, communications, cultural, and economic centre of the nation. It is also the country's largest city, with a population of 2,415,266 in 2019. The city's n ...


Canada

British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, for ...
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Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest T ...
and
Saskatchewan Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada, western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on t ...
* Gervais Wheels Museum – Alida,
Saskatchewan Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada, western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on t ...
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National Music Centre The National Music Centre (NMC; french: Centre nationale de musique) is a non-profit museum and performance venue located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The centre's permanent building, branded Studio Bell, is located at 850 4th Street S.E. in Dow ...
Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, maki ...
* Creative Kids Museum, musical collection – Calgary * Canadian Music Hall of Fame – Calgary * Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame – Calgary *
Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame The Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame honours Canadian country music artists, builders or broadcasters, living or deceased. The artifact collection includes extensive biographical information on the inductees. It is located in downtown Merritt, ...
Merritt * Revelstoke Nickelodeon Museum – Revelstoke
Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native Eng ...
and
Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirte ...
* Musée des ondes Emile Berliner dedicated to the history of music recording
Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple- ...
* Celtic Music Interpretive Centre – Judique * Hank Snow Home Town Museum, dedicated to
Hank Snow Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow (May 9, 1914 – December 20, 1999) was a Canadian-American country music artist. Most popular in the 1950s, he had a career that spanned more than 50 years, he recorded 140 albums and charted more than 85 singles on ...
Liverpool Liverpool is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the List of English districts by population, 10th largest English district by population and its E ...
* Musée de l'Accordéon – Montmagny * Anne Murray Centre, dedicated to
Anne Murray Morna Anne Murray (born June 20, 1945) is a retired Canadian singer. Her albums, consisting primarily of pop, country, and adult contemporary music, have sold over 55 million copies worldwide during her over 40-year career. Murray was the fir ...
Springhill
Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Ca ...
* Forest City Gallery, musical collection –
London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...
* Youngtown Rock and Roll Museum, dedicated to
Neil Young Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Fu ...
Omemee * Franco-Ontarian Folklore Centre –
Greater Sudbury Sudbury, officially the City of Greater Sudbury is the largest city in Northern Ontario by population, with a population of 166,004 at the 2021 Canadian Census. By land area, it is the largest in Ontario and the fifth largest in Canada. It is a ...
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Shania Twain Centre The Shania Twain Centre was a city-owned tourist attraction that operated in Timmins, Ontario, from 2001 to 2013. It exhibited memorabilia, awards and other personal items loaned to the Centre by singer Shania Twain, who was raised in Timmins. ...
(2001–2013), dedicated to
Shania Twain Eilleen Regina "Shania" Twain ( , ; née Edwards; born August 28, 1965) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She has sold over 100 million records, making her the best-selling female artist in country music history and one of the best-s ...
Timmins Timmins ( ) is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the Mattagami River. The city is the fourth-largest city in the Northeastern Ontario region with a population of 41,145 (2021). The city's economy is based on natural resource ext ...
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Ontario Science Centre The Ontario Science Centre, formally the Centennial Museum of Science and Technology, is a science museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located near the Don Valley Parkway about northeast of downtown on Don Mills Road just south of ...
, musical collection – Flemingdon Park,
Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ...
* Barn Dance Historical Society Entertainment Museum – Wingham


Cape Verde

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Museu da Tabanka The Museu da Tabanca is a museum in the town Chã de Tanque in the western part of the island of Santiago in Cape Verde. It is dedicated to local culture, including tabanka music. The museum was first opened in 2000 in Assomada, the seat of the mu ...
, dedicated to
tabanka Tabanka (Cape Verdean crioulo name of tabanca) is a musical genre of Cape Verdean music. As general music As general music, tabanka characterizes by having an ''allegro'', a binary compass, and traditionally being melodic only. In its tradit ...
music – Assomada


China

* Choir Organ Museum – Gulangyu,
Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its ...
* Gulangyu Piano Museum – Gulangyu, Fujian * Heilongjiang Music Museum, musical instruments –
Harbin Harbin (; mnc, , v=Halbin; ) is a sub-provincial city and the provincial capital and the largest city of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, as well as the second largest city by urban population after Shenyang and largest c ...
, province of
Heilongjiang Heilongjiang () Postal romanization, formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a Provinces of China, province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is th ...
* Drum Tower of Xi'an
Xi'an Xi'an ( , ; ; Chinese: ), frequently spelled as Xian and also known by other names, is the capital of Shaanxi Province. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong Plain, the city is the third most populous city in Western China, after Chongqi ...
, province
Shaanxi Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see § Name) is a landlocked province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichuan (SW), Gansu (W), N ...
* Wuhan Museum, musical instruments collection –
Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city a ...
, province of
Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The p ...


Czech Republic

; dedicated to composers dedicated to
Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example ...
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Nelahozeves Nelahozeves is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,200 inhabitants. It is known for the Nelahozeves Castle and as the birthplace of Antonín Dvořák, who is one of ...
* Antonín Dvořák Museum
Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
* – Sychrov * –
Vysoká u Příbramě Vysoká u Příbramě is a municipality and village in Příbram District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants. Notable people *Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 18 ...
* – Zlonice dedicated to
Leoš Janáček Leoš Janáček (, baptised Leo Eugen Janáček; 3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist, and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic musics, including Eastern European f ...
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Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...
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Hukvaldy Hukvaldy (german: Hochwald) is a municipality and village in Frýdek-Místek District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,100 inhabitants. It is known for the ruins of the third-largest castle in the Czech Republi ...
dedicated to
Bedřich Smetana Bedřich Smetana ( , ; 2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival." He has been regarded i ...
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Jabkenice Jabkenice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants. Notable people *Bedřich Smetana Bedřich Smetana ( , ; 2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) was ...
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Litomyšl Litomyšl (; german: Leitomischl) is a town in Svitavy District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 9,900 inhabitants. It is former bishopric and Latin Catholic titular see. Litomyšl is known for the château-type castle ...
* – Obříství * Bedřich Smetana Museum
Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
dedicated to other composers *
Josef Suk Museum Josef Suk Memorial is a museum in Křečovice, a village in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It was the home of the composer and violinist Josef Suk (1874–1935), and is now a museum dedicated to him. Description The house was ...
, dedicated to Josef Suk
Křečovice Křečovice is a municipality and village in Benešov District in the Central Bohemian Region The Central Bohemian Region ( cz, Středočeský kraj, german: Mittelböhmische Region) is an administrative unit ( cz, kraj) of the Czech Republic, lo ...
* , dedicated to
Paul Wranitzky Paul Wranitzky (Czech: Pavel Vranický, 30 December 1756 – 29 September 1808) was a Moravian-Austrian classical composer. His half brother, Antonín, was also a composer. Life Wranitzky was born in Neureisch ( Nová Říše) in Habsburg Mora ...
, Antonín Vranický and Jan NovákNová Říše * , dedicated to
Bohuslav Martinů Bohuslav Jan Martinů (; December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer of modern classical music. He wrote 6 symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. He be ...
Polička Polička (; german: Politschka) is a town in Svitavy District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 8,700 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone. Administra ...
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Bertramka Bertramka () is a villa in Prague notable because of possible visits by Mozart. Now it is a museum dedicated to the memory of Mozart and to the former owners and Mozart’s hosts: František and Josefina Dušek. Background It is little known ...
(temporally closed), dedicated to
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...
Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
* – Modrý pokoj, dedicated to Jaroslav Ježek – Prague * , dedicated to František Drdla
Žďár nad Sázavou Žďár nad Sázavou (; german: Saar) is a town in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 20,000 inhabitants. It is situated on a major rail link between Prague and Brno. The town both industrial and tourist centre. It is known ...
; Other museums * Music Without Musicians
Hořovice Hořovice (; german: Horschowitz, Horvitz, Horowitz) is a town in Beroun District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 6,900 inhabitants. Administrative parts Hořovice is made up of only one administrative part. Hi ...
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Ostrava Ostrava (; pl, Ostrawa; german: Ostrau ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic, and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 280,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four riv ...
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Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
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Lobkowicz Palace The Lobkowicz Palace ( cs, Lobkowický palác) is a part of the Prague Castle complex in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the only privately owned building in the Prague Castle complex and houses the Lobkowicz Collections and Museum. The palace wa ...
, partly dedicated to classical music – Prague * – Prague * – Lesonice * , collection
bagpipes Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, ...
Strakonice Strakonice (; german: Strakonitz) is a town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 22,000 inhabitants. Administrative parts Strakonice is made up of town parts of Strakonice I and Strakonice II, and villages of Dražejov ...


Denmark

* – Knebel * The Danish Music Museum (Musikmuseet) –
Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan a ...
* Carl Nielsen Museum, dedicated to
Carl Nielsen Carl August Nielsen (; 9 June 1865 – 3 October 1931) was a Danish composer, conductor and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer. Brought up by poor yet musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he ...
Odense Odense ( , , ) is the third largest city in Denmark (behind Copenhagen and Aarhus) and the largest city on the island of Funen. As of 1 January 2022, the city proper had a population of 180,863 while Odense Municipality had a population of 20 ...
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Memphis Mansion Memphis Mansion, until 2015 Graceland Randers, is a museum and restaurant in Randers, Denmark. It is dedicated to the rock and roll singer and actor Elvis Presley (1935–1977). History and background The museum was opened on 14 April 2011 by . ...
, dedicated to
Elvis Presley Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), or simply Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Dubbed the " King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. His ener ...
Randers Randers () is a city in Randers Municipality, Central Denmark Region on the Jutland peninsula. It is Denmark's sixth-largest city, with a population of 62,802 (as of 1 January 2022).Roskilde Roskilde ( , ) is a city west of Copenhagen on the Danish island of Zealand. With a population of 51,916 (), the city is a business and educational centre for the region and the 10th largest city in Denmark. It is governed by the administrative ...
* Nysted Orgelmuseum
Nysted Nysted is a town in Guldborgsund Municipality in Region Zealand on the southeastern coast of the island of Lolland in south Denmark. Nysted is located on the southern coast of Lolland, and has a population of 1,292 (1 January 2022).Estonian Theatre and Music Museum Estonian Theatre and Music Museum is a national museum located in the old town of Tallinn, Estonia. The museum was established in 1924. History The Estonian Theatre and Music Museum was established in 1924. Estonian music composer Peeter S ...
Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju '' ...


Finland

* Ainola, dedicated to
Jean Sibelius Jean Sibelius ( ; ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and his music is often ...
Järvenpää Järvenpää (; sv, Träskända) is a town and municipality in Finland. It is located on the Helsinki–Riihimäki railway track in Uusimaa region, some north of Helsinki. Neighbouring municipalities are Tuusula, Sipoo and Mäntsälä. People ...
* Military Music Museum of Finland
Lahti Lahti (; sv, Lahtis) is a city and municipality in Finland. It is the capital of the region of Päijänne Tavastia (Päijät-Häme) and its growing region is one of the main economic hubs of Finland. Lahti is situated on a bay at the southern e ...
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Sibelius Museum The Sibelius Museum ( Finnish: ', Swedish: ') is a museum of music, named after the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The museum is located close to Turku Cathedral in the historical city centre of Turku on the southwest coast of Finland. ...
, dedicated to
Jean Sibelius Jean Sibelius ( ; ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and his music is often ...
Turku Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...
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Varkaus Varkaus (before year 1929 ''Warkaus'') is a Middle- Savonian industrial town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Northern Savonia region, between city of Kuopio and town of Savonlin ...
* Villa Kokkonen, dedicated to Joonas Kokkonen
Järvenpää Järvenpää (; sv, Träskända) is a town and municipality in Finland. It is located on the Helsinki–Riihimäki railway track in Uusimaa region, some north of Helsinki. Neighbouring municipalities are Tuusula, Sipoo and Mäntsälä. People ...


France

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Si ...
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Musée des Arts et Métiers The Musée des Arts et Métiers () (French for Museum of Arts and Crafts) is an industrial design museum in Paris that houses the collection of the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, which was founded in 1794 as a repository for the pr ...
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Salon Frédéric Chopin The Salon Frédéric Chopin is a small museum dedicated to Frédéric Chopin. It is located within the Polish Library in Paris - Bibliothèque polonaise de Paris - in the 4th arrondissement of Paris at 6, Quai d'Orléans, Paris, France. Guided vis ...
, dedicated to
Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leadin ...
4th arrondissement *
Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra National de Paris The Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra National de Paris is a library and museum of the Paris Opera and is located in the 9th arrondissement at 8 rue Scribe, Paris, France. It is no longer managed by the Opera, but instead is part of the Music De ...
9th arrondissement * Musée du Hard Rock Café – 9th arrondissement * Musée Édith Piaf, dedicated to
Édith Piaf Édith Piaf (, , ; born Édith Giovanna Gassion, ; December 19, 1915– October 10, 1963) was a French singer, lyricist and actress. Noted as France's national chanteuse, she was one of the country's most widely known international stars. Pi ...
11th arrondissement * Musée-Placard d'Erik Satie, dedicated to
Erik Satie Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (, ; ; 17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. He was the son of a French father and a British mother. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but was an und ...
18th arrondissement The 18th arrondissement of Paris (''XVIIIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as ''dix-huitième''. The arrondissement, known as Butte-Montmartr ...
* Musée de la Musique19th arrondissement * Phono Museum (France) – 9th arrondissement Other museums * Musée de la musique – Anduze * Josephine Baker Museum, Château des Milandes, dedicated to
Josephine Baker Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald; naturalised French Joséphine Baker; 3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an American-born French dancer, singer and actress. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted Fran ...
Castelnaud-la-Chapelle Castelnaud-la-Chapelle (; oc, Castelnòu e La Capèla) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. The Château de Castelnaud-la-Chapelle is located in the commune. Geography The river Céou flows nort ...
* Museum of Musical Instruments, Céret
Céret Céret (; ) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. It is the capital of the historic Catalan comarca of Vallespir. Geography The town lies in the foothills of the Pyrénées mountains, in southern France. ...
* Musée de l'art forain et de la musique mécanique –
Conflans-en-Jarnisy Conflans-en-Jarnisy () is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France. See also *Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department The following is a list of the 591 communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department of Fr ...
* Musée Hector-Berlioz – birthplace of
Hector Berlioz In Greek mythology, Hector (; grc, Ἕκτωρ, Hektōr, label=none, ) is a character in Homer's Iliad. He was a Trojan prince and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War. Hector led the Trojans and their allies in the defense o ...
La Côte-Saint-André La Côte-Saint-André () is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. Populations Personalities *Hector Berlioz was born here. His birthplace is now a museum: Musée Hector-Berlioz. * Philippe du Contant de la Molette was bo ...
* – La Couture-Boussey * Musée Claude-Debussy, dedicated to
Claude Debussy (Achille) Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionism in music, Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most infl ...
Saint-Germain-en-Laye * Musée de la musique mécanique – Les Gets * Maisons Satie, dedicated to
Erik Satie Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (, ; ; 17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. He was the son of a French father and a British mother. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but was an und ...
Honfleur Honfleur () is a commune in the Calvados department in northwestern France. It is located on the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine across from le Havre and very close to the exit of the Pont de Normandie. The people that inhabit Honf ...
* – L'Isle-Jourdain, Gers * – Limoux * Musée de la musique mécanique – Mirecourt * Musée de la Lutherie et de l'Archèterie françaises – Mirecourt * , dedicated to Maurice Ravel – Montfort-l'Amaury * – Montluçon * Palais Lascaris, musical instruments museum – Nice * Musée de la chanson française – La Planche * – Steenwerck


Germany

Baden-Württemberg * Brahms House (Baden-Baden), Brahms House, dedicated to
Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...
– Baden-Baden * Schloss Bruchsal#Current usage, Deutsches Musikautomaten-Museum – Bruchsal * , partly dedicated to Joseph Martin Kraus – Buchen * Augustiner Museum, musical instruments collection – Freiburg im Breisgau, Freiburg * German Phono Museum – Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald * Glockenmuseum Stiftskirche Herrenberg, Glockenmuseum Stiftskirche – Herrenberg * – Lautlingen, Albstadt * – Mannheim * House of Music (Stuttgart), House of Music − Stuttgart * – Trossingen * , collection mechanical musical instruments – Waldkirch * , dedicated to Friedrich Silcher – Weinstadt, Weinstadt-Schnait Bavaria * , dedicated to Leopold Mozart, Leopold and
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...
– Augsburg * , dedicated to E. T. A. Hoffmann – Bamberg * , dedicated to
Franz Liszt Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...
– Bayreuth * Wahnfried, House Wahnfried, dedicated to Richard Wagner – Bayreuth * , partly dedicated to Christoph Willibald Gluck – Berching * , dedicated to Carl Orff – Dießen am Ammersee * , dedicated to Werner Egk – Donauwörth * – Feuchtwangen * , dedicated to Richard Strauss – Garmisch-Partenkirchen * – Mittenwald * – Munich * – Ostheim, Ostheim vor der Rhön * , with a collection of Adolf von Henselt – Schwabach * – Valley, Bavaria, Valley * , dedicated to Vinzenz Lachner, Vinzenz, Franz Lachner, Franz and Ignaz Lachner – Rain, Swabia, Rain Berlin and Brandenburg * – Beeskow * , Bad Belzig * , dedicated to Bartolomeo Cristofori – Berlin-Gesundbrunnen * Ramones Museum, dedicated to the Ramones – Kreuzberg, Berlin-Kreuzberg * Berlin Musical Instrument Museum – Tiergarten, Berlin, Berlin-Tiergarten * , dedicated to August Friedrich, Johann Gottlieb Graun, Johann Gottlieb and Carl Heinrich Graun – Bad Liebenwerda * , dedicated to Xaver Scharwenka, Xaver and Philipp Scharwenka – Bad Saarow Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern * , partly dedicated to Carl Maria von Weber – Eutin * , dedicated to
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– Heide * Composers Quarter Hamburg – Hamburg-Neustadt, Hamburg, Neustadt ** Brahms Museum (Hamburg), Brahms Museum, dedicated to
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** 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 Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism ...
** Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn Museum, dedicated to Fanny Mendelssohn, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn * Hamburg Museum, musical collection – Hamburg-Neustadt, Hamburg, Neustadt * Beatlemania Hamburg (2009–2012), dedicated to
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– Hamburg-St. Pauli * (1987–2013) – Hamburg-Winterhude * – Kröpelin * Brahms-Institut, dedicated to Johannes Brahms and other composers – Lübeck * Malchow Abbey#Mecklenburgisches Orgelmuseum, Mecklenburgisches Orgelmuseum – Malchow North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Bremen * , piano museum – Bergheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bergheim * Beethoven House, dedicated to
Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...
– Bonn * , dedicated to Robert Schumann – Bonn-Endenich * – Borgentreich * (2011–2013), dedicated to
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– Düsseldorf * (?-2011) – Goslar * – Gronau, North Rhine-Westphalia, Gronau * , musical instruments collection – Hattingen * – Extertal * Stones Fan Museum, dedicated to The Rolling Stones – Lüchow * (2009–2013) – Monschau * , dedicated to Friedrich Fleiter – Münster, Münster-Nienberge * – Schwarmstedt * – Weener Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Hesse * , partly dedicated to
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– Friedberg, Hesse, Friedberg * , dedicated to Paul Hindemith – Frankfurt * , dedicated to Louis Spohr – Kassel * , dedicated to
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– Koblenz * – Ortenberg, Hesse, Ortenberg-Lißberg * – Rüdesheim am Rhein * Musikantenland Museum – Thallichtenberg * – Windesheim, Germany, Windesheim Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt * Villa Teresa, Coswig, Villa Teresa, dedicated to Eugen d'Albert and Teresa Carreño – Coswig, Saxony, Coswig * Kurt Weill Centre, dedicated to Kurt Weill – Dessau-Roßlau * Carl Maria von Weber Museum, dedicated to Carl Maria von Weber – Dresden-Hosterwitz * , dedicated to Richard Wagner – Dresden-Graupa * , dedicated to Gottfried Silbermann – Frauenstein, Saxony, Frauenstein * , dedicated to Rudolf Mauersberger, Rudolf and Erhard Mauersberger – Großrückerswalde * , dedicated to
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– Halle (Saale), Halle * Wilhelm Friedemann Bach House, dedicated to seven composers – Halle * Handel House, dedicated to Georg Friedrich Händel – Halle * – Klosterhäseler * , collection Johann Sebastian Bach – Köthen * Mendelssohn House, Leipzig, dedicated to Felix Mendelssohn, Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn – Leipzig * Bach Museum Leipzig, dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach – Leipzig * , dedicated to Edvard Grieg – Leipzig * Museum of Musical Instruments of Leipzig University – Leipzig * Schumann House, Leipzig, dedicated to Robert Schumann, Robert and Clara Schumann – Leipzig * , dedicated to Carl Loewe – Löbejün * – Markneukirchen * Lindenmuseum Clara Schumann, dedicated to Clara Schumann – Müglitztal * , dedicated to Reinhard Keiser, Johann Christian Schieferdecker, Johann David Heinichen, and Johann Friedrich Fasch – Teuchern * Heinrich Schütz House, Weißenfels, Heinrich Schütz House, dedicated to Heinrich Schütz – Weißenfels * Robert Schumann House, dedicated to Robert Schumann – Zwickau Thuringia * , partly dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach – Arnstadt * (1988–2009) – Bechstedtstraß * Bach House (Eisenach), Bachhaus, dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach – Eisenach * , dedicated to Richard Wagner – Eisenach * Heinrich Schütz House, Bad Köstritz, Heinrich Schütz House, dedicated to Heinrich Schütz – Bad Köstritz * , dedicated to Max Reger – Meiningen * Elisabethenburg Palace, Museum im Schloss Elisabethenburg, musical history and instruments – Meiningen * , dedicated to the Bach family and violins craft – Günthersleben-Wechmar, Wechmar * , dedicated to
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– Weimar


Ghana

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


Greece

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


Guatemala

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


Hungary

; Budapest * Béla Bartók Memorial House, dedicated to Béla Bartók * , dedicated to
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* , dedicated to Zoltán Kodály * Museum of Music History ; Other museums * Egri Road Beatles Múzeum, dedicated to
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– Eger * , dedicated to
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– 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

* – Malang


Iran

* Tehran 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 ItalyOfficial Italian Tour Operator
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– Altschluderbach, Toblach * Donizetti's birthplace, dedicated to Gaetano Donizetti – Bergamo * Donizetti Museum, dedicated to Gaetano Donizetti – Bergamo * Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica – Bologna * Oratory of San Colombano, Bologna, Oratorium of San Colombano – Bologna * , dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi – Busseto * , dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi – Busseto * Villa Verdi, dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi – Busseto * Civic Museum of Crema, musical collection – Crema, Lombardy, Crema * Museo del violino – Cremona * Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona, Museo Civico Ala Ponzone – Cremona * , dedicated to Fabrizio De André – Genoa * – Genoa * Collezione Didattica piccolo Museo della Musica – Lodi, Lombardy, Lodi * Fondo Musicale Greggiati, dedicated to Giuseppe Greggiati – Province of Mantua, Mantua * Museum of Musical Instruments (Milan), Museum of Musical Instruments – Milan * Museo Teatrale alla Scala, musical collection – Milan * , dedicated to Arturo Toscanini – Parma * Museo storico Riccardo Barilla del Conservatorio di Parma – Parma * – Roncegno Terme, Roncegno * Museo Etnografico e dello Strumento Musicale a Fiato – Quarna Sotto * , musical collection – Trieste * Museo della Canzone – Vallecrosia * San Maurizio, Venice, San Maurizio, dedicated to music of Baroque Venice – Venice * Museo Wagner, dedicated to Richard Wagner – Ca' Vendramin Calergi, Venice * – Verona ; Central Italy * – Castelfidardo * – Florence * , dedicated to Enrico Caruso – Lastra a Signa * , dedicated to Gaspare Spontini – Maiolati Spontini * – Massa Marittima * , 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 * – Talla, Arezzo, 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, Campania, Gesualdo * – Isca sullo Ionio * – Naples * , partly dedicated to Francesco Cilea and Nicola Manfroce – Palmi, Calabria, Palmi, Reggio Calabria


Jamaica

* Bob Marley Museum, dedicated to Bob Marley – Nine Mile, Jamaica, Nine Mile * Bob Marley Mausoleum – Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston


Japan

; Tokyo * Michio Miyagi Memorial Hall, dedicated to Michio Miyagi * (?–2013), mechanical musical instruments * Museum of the Musashino Academia Musicae * Min-On Concert Association, Min-On Musical Museum ; Other museums *Mandolin Melodies Museum – Aichi Prefecture, Aichi * – Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi, Fujikawaguchiko * Musical Instruments Museum – Hamamatsu * – Izu Peninsula, Izu, Itō, Shizuoka, Itō * – Kobe * The Museum, successor of – Matsushima, Miyagi, Matsushima * – Misasa, Tottori, Misasa * – Nasu, Tochigi, Nasu * – Saikai, Nagasaki, Saikai * – Nishinomiya * – Mimasaka, Okayama, Mimasaka * – Osaka * Otaru Music Box Museum – Otaru * John Lennon Museum (2000–2010), dedicated to John Lennon – Saitama (city), Saitama * – Shizuoka Prefecture, Shizuoka * (2000-2010), organ museum – Tendō, Yamagata, 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, 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

* Museo de la Canción Yucateca Asociación Civil, Museum of the Yucatecan Song – Mérida, Yucatán, Mérida * Casa de la Música Mexicana – Mexico City * – Mexico City


Mongolia

* Mongolian Theatre Museum – Ulaanbaatar


Netherlands

North * (1987–2008) – Assen * – Barger-Compascuum * – Eelde * – Gasselternijveenschemond * , dedicated to Cuby + Blizzards – Grolloo * , dedicated to
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– Molkwerum * – Stadskanaal * (2008–2012) – de Wijk West * , dedicated to
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– Alkmaar * Geelvinck Early Piano Museum – Amsterdam * Museum Geelvinck-Hinlopen (1991–2015) – Amsterdam * (1997–2011/14), dedicated to Willy Alberti – Amsterdam * – Amsterdam * – Amsterdam * Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, musical collection – The Hague * (1905–1935) – The Hague * Barrel Organ Museum Haarlem – Haarlem * Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision – Hilversum * – Hook of Holland * – Volendam * – Vlaardingen Centre and east * – Bennekom * , dedicated to
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– Culemborg * – Elburg * Museum Geelvinck Kolthoorn – Heerde * – Malden, Netherlands, Malden * – Nieuwleusen * , dedicated to Radio Veronica and Demis Roussos – Nijkerk * – Paasloo, Steenwijkerland * Museum Speelklok – Utrecht * Geelvinck Music Museum Zutphen (2016–2019) – Zutphen * – Zwolle South * – Asten, Netherlands, Asten * , named after Anselmo Gavioli – Helmond * – Hilvarenbeek * – Sint-Oedenrode * – Tilburg


New Zealand

* , dedicated to
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– Hawera * Whittaker's Live Musical Museum – Auckland


Norway

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


Philippines

* Jose R. Gullas Halad Museum – Cebu City


Poland

dedicated to
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* Fryderyk Chopin Museum – Warsaw * Chopin family parlor – Warsaw * Birthplace of Frédéric Chopin – Żelazowa Wola dedicated to other musicians * , 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 * – Będomin * – Katowice * – Poznań * – Szyba, Lubusz Voivodeship, Szyba * – Szydłowiec * – Wejherowo


Portugal

* Museum of Portuguese Music (Estoril), Museum of Portuguese Music – Estoril * – 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, Puerto Rico, 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, Puerto Rico, Ponce * Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña – Barrio Tercero, Ponce * – San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan * Museum of Reggaeton and Daddy Yankee – at Plaza Las Américas Mall


Reunion

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


Romania

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


Russia

Moscow * * 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:Saint Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music
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** 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, Klinsky District, Moscow Oblast, Klin * Rockmuseum – Ufa * Ivanovka estate, Ivanovka, former summer residence of Sergei Rachmaninoff – Tambov * Musical Instrument Museum (Volgograd), Musical Instrument Museum – Volgograd * Tchaikovsky Museum (Votkinsk), 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 confederacy, 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
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– Valldemossa, Mallorca * Casa–Museo del Timple, local string instruments (timples) – Teguise (village), Teguise, Lanzarote ;North coast * , 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, Huesca, Agüero, Aragon * Museo Nino Bravo, dedicated to Nino Bravo – Aielo de Malferit, Valencia * Museu de la Música de Barcelona – Barcelona * – 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 – Erronkari, Roncal, Navarra * Museu Pau Casals, dedicated to Pablo Casals – el Vendrell, Catalonia * , 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, Linares, Jaén * Museo de Raphael, dedicated to Raphael (singer), Raphael – Linares, Jaén * – Málaga * , 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 (composer), José Padilla Sánchez – Madrid * Fundación Victoria y Joaquín Rodrigo, dedicated to Victoria Kamhi, Victoria and Joaquín Rodrigo – Madrid * Museo Hazen, piano collection – Las Rozas de Madrid, Madrid * Museo de la Música. Colección Luis Delgado (musician), Luis Delgado – Urueña, Valladolid


Sweden

Stockholm * ABBA: The Museum, dedicated to ABBA * * Stockholm Music Museum (1901–2010) * Swedish Museum of Performing Arts Other museums * , dedicated to Jussi Björling – Borlänge * , dedicated to
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– Gothenburg * (2008–2016), dedicated to Evert Taube – Göteborg * , museum on
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– Strömsholm * Guitars – the Museum – Umeå * Birgit Nilsson Museum, dedicated to Birgit Nilsson * Zarah Leander-museet, dedicated to Zarah Leander


Switzerland

* Music Museum (Basel), Music Museum – Basel * – Basel * Musée Baud, named after instrument builders Frédy, Robert and Auguste Baud – L'Auberson * , Liestal * Queen: The Studio Experience, dedicated to Queen (band), Queen – Montreux * Museum of Timekeeping and Mechanical Musical Instruments – Oberhofen am Thunersee * – Roche, Vaud, Roche * Musée d'automates et de boîtes à musique – Sainte-Croix, Switzerland, Sainte-Croix * – Seewen, Solothurn, Seewen * Richard Wagner Museum, Lucerne, dedicated to Richard Wagner – Tribschen * , jazz museum – Uster


Taiwan

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


Tajikistan

* Gurminj Museum of Musical Instruments – Dushanbe


Tunisia

* Ennejma Ezzahra, 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, London, Acton * Musical Museum, Brentford, Musical Museum – Kew Bridge, Brentford * Foundling Museum – Bloomsbury * Horniman Museum, named after Frederick John Horniman – Forest Hill, London, Forest Hill * British Music Experience (2009–2014) – Greenwich * Fenton House – Hampstead * Royal College of Music#The Royal College of Music Museum, 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, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Richmond upon Thames * Museum of Army Music – Kneller Hall, Whitton, London, Whitton, Richmond upon Thames * Royal College of Music#The Royal College of Music Museum, The Royal College of Music Museum – South Kensington Liverpool * Cavern Mecca (1981–1984), dedicated to
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* The Beatles Story, dedicated to
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* 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 Herschel, William and Caroline Herschel – Bath, Somerset, Bath * Holburne Museum – Bath * Royal Birmingham Conservatoire#The conservatoire, 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 * Mechanical Museum and Doll Collection – Chichester * Paul Corins Magnificent Music Machines (1967–2013) – Liskerad, Cornwall * Mechanical Music Museum – Cotton, Suffolk, 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 District, Sevenoaks * John Taylor & Co, collections bells – Loughborough * Elgar Birthplace Museum, dedicated to Edward Elgar – Broadheath, Worcestershire, Broadheath * Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum – Morpeth, Northumberland, 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, Lincolnshire, Pinchbeck * Scarborough Fair Collection, collection mechanical organs – Scarborough, North Yorkshire, 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 * Reid Concert Hall#Music museum, 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 * National Piping Centre, 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


Alabama

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


Arizona

* Musical Instrument Museum (Phoenix), Musical Instrument Museum – Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix


Arkansas

* Delta Cultural Center – Helena, Arkansas, Helena * Guitar Museum – Jacksonville, Arkansas, Jacksonville * Ozark Folk Center – Mountain View, Arkansas, Mountain View


California

* Buck Owens Crystal Palace, dedicated to Buck Owens – Bakersfield, California, Bakersfield * Museum of Making Music – Carlsbad, California, Carlsbad * Grammy Museum at L.A. Live – Los Angeles * Songwriters Hall of Fame – Los Angeles * Sacramento Rock and Radio Museum – Sacramento, California, Sacramento * Nethercutt Collection – Sylmar, San Fernando Valley * Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, dedicated to
Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...
– San Jose, California, San Jose


Colorado

* Colorado Music Hall of Fame – Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Morrison, Colorado, Morrison


Connecticut

* Museum of Fife & Drum – Ivoryton * Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments – New Haven, Connecticut, New Haven


Florida

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


Georgia

* – Atlanta * Trap Music Museum, dedicated to rapper T.I. – Atlanta * Georgia Music Hall of Fame – Macon, Georgia, 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, Illinois, Barrington Hills * Rock N Roll McDonald's (1983–2018, as restaurant museum) – Chicago * Illinois Rock & Roll Museum on Rt. 66 – Joliet, Illinois, Joliet * David Adler Music and Arts Center – Libertyville, Illinois, Libertyville * Sousa Archives and Center for American Music – Urbana, Illinois, Urbana


Indiana

* Great American Songbook Foundation#GRAMMY Museum Cultural Affiliation, Songbook Exhibit Gallery, Great American Songbook Foundation – Carmel, Indiana, Carmel * Great American Songbook Foundation – Carmel * Zaharakos Ice Cream Parlor and Museum – Columbus, Indiana, Columbus * Dr. Ted's Musical Marvels, named after Ted Waflart – Huntingburg, Indiana, Huntingburg * Rhythm! Discovery Center – Indianapolis


Iowa

* America's Old-Time Country Music Hall Of Fame – Anita, Iowa, Anita * Iowa Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame – Arnolds Park, Iowa, Arnolds Park * Glenn Miller Birthplace Museum, dedicated to Glenn Miller – Clarinda, Iowa, Clarinda * River Music Experience – Davenport, Iowa, Davenport * Music Man Square, dedicated to Meredith Willson and his musical ''The Music Man'' – Mason City, Iowa, Mason City * Bily Clocks Museum, partly dedicated to
Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example ...
– Spillville, Iowa, Spillville * Surf Ballroom, Surf Ballroom & Museum – Clear Lake


Kentucky

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


Louisiana

* Louisiana Music Hall of Fame – Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Baton Rouge * Cajun Music Hall of Fame, dedicated to Cajun music – Eunice, Louisiana, Eunice * Delta Music Museum – Ferriday, Louisiana, 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, Maine, Thorndike


Maryland

* Bagpipe Museum (United States), Bagpipe Museum – Ellicott City, Maryland, Ellicott City * Strathmore (Maryland), Strathmore – North Bethesda, Maryland, North Bethesda


Massachusetts

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


Michigan

* Music House Museum – Acme Township, Michigan, Acme * Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments – Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ann Arbor * Hitsville U.S.A., 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, Michigan, Port Huron * Tuba Museum, dedicated to the tuba – Okemos, Michigan, Okemos


Minnesota

* Minnesota Music Hall of Fame – New Ulm, Minnesota, New Ulm * Paisley Park Studios, dedicated to Prince (musician), Prince – Chanhassen, Minnesota, Chanhassen * Schubert Club, named after
Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wo ...
– Saint Paul, Minnesota, Saint Paul


Mississippi

* Mississippi John Hurt Museum, dedicated to Mississippi John Hurt – Carrollton, Mississippi, Carrollton * Delta Blues Museum – Clarksdale, Mississippi, Clarksdale * Rock & Blues Museum – Clarksdale * The Grammy Museum Mississippi – Cleveland, Mississippi, Cleveland * Greenwood Blues Heritage Museum & Gallery – Greenwood, Mississippi, Greenwood * Robert Johnson Blues Museum, dedicated to Robert Johnson – Crystal Springs, Mississippi, Crystal Springs * Mississippi Music Museum – Hazlehurst, Mississippi, Hazlehurst * Graceland Too (1990–2014) – Holly Springs, Mississippi, Holly Springs * B.B. King Museum, B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, dedicated to B.B. King – Indianola, Mississippi, Indianola * Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame – Jackson, Mississippi, Jackson * Highway 61 Blues Museum – Leland, Mississippi, Leland * Hartley Peavey Visitor Center, dedicated to Peavey Electronics, Peavey – Meridian, Mississippi, Meridian * Highland Park (Meridian, Mississippi), Highland Park, dedicated to Jimmie Rodgers (country singer), Jimmie Rodgers – Meridian * Charles H. Templeton, Sr. Music Museum, musical collection – Starkville, Mississippi, Starkville * Gateway to the Blues Visitors Center and Museum – Tunica, Mississippi, Tunica * Elvis Presley Birthplace, dedicated to
Elvis Presley Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), or simply Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Dubbed the " King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. His ener ...
– Tupelo, Mississippi, Tupelo * Howlin' Wolf Museum, dedicated to Howlin' Wolf – West Point, Mississippi, West Point


Missouri

* – Branson, Missouri, Branson * American Jazz Museum – Kansas City, Missouri, 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, Nebraska, Omaha


Nevada

* Liberace Museum Collection – Paradise, Nevada, Paradise * Elvis-A-Rama Museum (1999–2006) – dedicated to
Elvis Presley Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), or simply Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Dubbed the " King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. His ener ...
, Paradise * The King's Ransom Museum, dedicated to Elvis Presley – Las Vegas


New Jersey

* Grammy Museum Experience – Newark, New Jersey, Newark * Morris Museum – Morristown, New Jersey, Morristown * New Jersey Music Hall of Fame


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 in Harlem, National Jazz Museum – Harlem * Hip Hop Hall of Fame – Harlem * Long Island Music Hall of Fame – Melville, Huntington, New York, 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 (memorial), Strawberry Fields, dedicated to John Lennon – Central Park, Manhattan * Louis Armstrong House, Louis Armstrong House Museum, dedicated to Louis Armstrong – Queens Other museums * Bethel Woods Center for the Arts – Bethel, New York, Bethel (Woodstock site) * Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum, dedicated to Marcella Sembrich – Bolton Landing, Warren County, New York, Warren County * New York State Country Music Hall of Fame – Cortland, New York, Cortland * Original American Kazoo Factory and Museum, dedicated the kazoo – Eden, New York, Eden * Fiddler's Hall of Fame and Museum, dedicated to fiddlers – Redfield, New York, Redfield * Empire State Theater Musical Instrument Museum – Syracuse, New York, Syracuse


North Carolina

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


North Dakota

* Ray Opera House Museum – Ray, North Dakota, Ray


Ohio

* Ted Lewis Museum, dedicated to Ted Lewis (musician), Ted Lewis – Circleville, Ohio, 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, Ohio, Euclid


Oklahoma

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


Oregon

* Schuman Collection, Schuman Instrument Collection – Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon, Ashland


Pennsylvania

* Liberty Bell Museum – Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown * DeBence Antique Music World – Franklin, Pennsylvania, Franklin * Wolf Museum of Music and Art – Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Lancaster County * American Treasure Tour – Oaks, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Montgomery County * C. F. Martin & Company, Martin Guitar Museum, named after C. F. Martin & Company – Nazareth, Pennsylvania, Nazareth * New Holland Band Museum – New Holland, Pennsylvania, New Holland * Bayernhof Music Museum – O'Hara Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 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, Pennsylvania, Rome * Vocal Group Hall of Fame – Sharon, Pennsylvania, Sharon


South Carolina

* The Kazoo Museum, dedicated to the kazoo – Beaufort, South Carolina, Beaufort * Carolina Music Museum – Heritage (Greenville, South Carolina), Heritage GreenCarolina Music Museum
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South Dakota

* National Music Museum – Vermillion, South Dakota, Vermillion


Tennessee

* West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center, musical museum and dedication to Tina Turner – Brownsville, Tennessee, Brownsville * Rockabilly Hall of Fame – Burns, Tennessee, 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, Tennessee, Hurricane Mills * International Rock-a-billy Hall of Fame – Jackson, Tennessee, Jackson * Mountain Music Museum – Kingsport, Tennessee, Kingsport * James D. Vaughan Museum, dedicated to James David Vaughan – Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, Lawrenceburg * Graceland, dedicated to
Elvis Presley Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), or simply Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Dubbed the " King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. His ener ...
– Memphis, Tennessee, 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, Tennessee, 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 * Museum of Appalachia, Hall of Fame and permanent collection of Uncle Dave Macon – Norris, Tennessee, Norris * , dedicated to
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Texas

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


Utah

* Utah Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum – Ogden, Utah, Ogden


Virginia

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


Washington

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


West Virginia

* Gorby's Vintage Instrument Museum – South Charleston, West Virginia, South CharlestonWorld Guides
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Washington, D.C.

* O Street Museum Foundation


Uzbekistan

* Memorial house museum of Tamara Khanum – Tashkent


References

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