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MUSICAL MUSEUMS

... both Real and Virtual

If making a visit to a 'real' museum always check beforehand to confirm opening hours, etc.  (Virtual museums are highlighted below in green)


Audio Playground Synthesizer Museum Claims to be the largest collection of keyboards and synthesizers in the world.  If you want to check dates and models, this is the place to find the information.
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Burtey Fen Collection THE BURTEY FEN COLLECTION Is a privately owned music hall housing a Compton Cinema Organ and Museum of memorabilia associated with entertainment.
3 Burtey Fen Lane, Pinchbeck, Spalding, Lincs. PE11 3SR
01775-766081
   
Electone Museum This online museum of Electone instruments is dedicated to musicians of all ages around the world. Check dates against models
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Fairground Organs & Dutch Street Organs The Waterings, Dunmow Road, Felsted, Essex CM6 3LD - 01371 820415
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Finchcocks Living Museum of Music - Goudhurst, Kent - 01580 211702
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Forest of Dean Organ Museum Springfields, Hawthorns Cross, Drybrook, Gloucestershire - 01594 542278
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Gisburne Steam Museum Little Todber Caravan Park, Gisburne
   

Gottfried Silbermann Museum

An interesting story about a Master Organ Builder of the German Baroque - lovely photographs

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Grand Rapids Museum of Grand Rapids - Mighty Wurlitzer 
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Keith Harding's World of Mechanical Music and clocks The Oak House, High Street, Northleach, Gloucestershire GL5 4EU - 01451 860181
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Key Museum  (V) dedicated to endangered species of the keyboard world
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Mechanical Music Museum & Bygones
and here for more information
Blacksmith Road, Stowmarket, Suffolk - 01449 613876
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Mechanical Music & Doll Collection Church Road, Portfield, Chichester, West Sussex - 01243 372646
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Museum of Entertainment Millgate, Whaplode St Catherines, Spalding, Lincs
 01406 540379
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Museum of Organs (V) Online museum of pipe organs
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Musical Museum
(formerly British Piano Museum)
368 High Street, Brentford, TW8 0BD - 0208 560 8108
closing 27/10/02 pending relocation.  Planned reopening 2004 - see their website for full details
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Paramount Organ Studios Manchester - 01204 529939 - temporary closure 2003
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Paul Corin Music Museum The Old Mill, St. Keyne, Liskeard, Cornwall PL14 4SH
 01579 343108
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Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments St Cecilia's Hall, Niddry Street, Cowgate, Edinburgh EH1 lLJ
Temporary closure 2003 but site still available
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Rye Treasury of Mechanical Music 20 Cinque Ports Street, Rye, Sussex TN31 7AD
 01797 223345
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St Albans Organ Museum 320 Camp Road, St. Albans, Herts AL1 5PE  ... 01727 851557
   
Strumpshaw Steam Museum & Christie Cinema Organ Hall Farm, Strumpshaw, Norwich, NR13 4HR
(01603)
714535 ... After 6pm: (01603) 713392
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Thursford Collection Thursford Green, Thursford, near Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 0AS -
0132 877477
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Turner's Musical Merry-go-round Queen Eleanor Vale, Newport Pagnell Road, Wootton, Northampton NN4 0HU - 01604 763314
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Victorian Reed Organ & Harmonium Museum Victoria Hall, Victoria Road, Saltaire Village, Shipley, West Yorkshire BD18 4PS - 01274 585601
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Virtual Organ Museum (V)

Interesting site in both German and English
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Virtual Synthesizer Museum (V)
   
Whittakers Musical Museum Artworks Centre, 2 Korora Street, Oneroa, Waiheke Island, NZ
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York Museum of Automata 9 Tower Street, York YO1 1SA - 0904 655550
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York Museum of Mechanical Music Bradley Grange, Bradley Lane, Rufforth, near York
 01924 272778  ... Appointment only