I am an enthusiastic collector of musical instruments to play on stage as a comic speaker and entertainer. Photo by Angela Lansbury.
Wintergatan band, of Sweden with one of their music making contraptions. Photo from Wikipedia.
I traced back to a music museum in the Netherlands and then looked at Wikipedia's entire list. The place with the largest number to visit is the USA.
In addition to Collections of guitars, country music, classical musicians, pop singers, country and western music singers, jazz, blues and folk music are also featured.
Favourite Music Museums
The places I have already seen and enjoyed and remember well are music instruments museums such as the one in London, UK. Museums honouring composers in Germany, and Italy, the composers. I liked learning about several singers in the USA (lots of Elvis museums) as well as Dolly Parton. Romania introduced me to Enescu. In Australia I was attracted by the huge statue of a guitar. In Austria I visited the graves of famous classical musicians in Vienna cemetery.
From the extremely long list, I have selected those I have visited, those of wide interest, and those I would like to visit.
Online Searching
You might also like to check out a style of music such as Country Music, blues or jazz. You may find many more which you love or hate, such as Portuguese fado, and Latin American tango.
Musicians Hall of Fame, Nashville, USA.
Halls Of Fame
Halls of Fame are another source. Or search for your favourite singers. For the writers of music, the word is composers. For the writers of the words, try librettist for classical music, lyricist, or simply songwriter.
Travellers' Souvenirs
In Romania I searched everywhere for Romanian music. the Enesco museum was closed when I first visited it. Eventually I found a recording of the national anthem and another tune on tiny wind up music boxes on sale at tourist sites.
On the longhaul flights of Singapore Airlines between London, UK, and Singapore, I like to listen to country and western singers, film scores, videos of performances (I saw Amy Winehouse for the first time on an airline).
You can also follow ethnic and religious music such as:
Arabic music,
Jewish musicians such as modern Amy Winehouse or classical Mendelssohn who wrote the Wedding March used at many weddings,
Christian hymn writers and gospel music (methodist Wesley has a museum in London, UK, more Methodists and Wesleys in the USA ).
ARGENTINA
Beatles Museum (Museo Beatle)
Tango Museum
ARMENIA
Charles Aznavour Museum
AUSTRALIA
Australian Country Music Hall of Fame, Tamworth.
You see the huge guitar
BELGIUM
Mr Sax's House.
Saxophones in street.
photo by Ymnes in Wikipedia.
CANADA
Elvis at Niagara.
CZECH REPUBLIC
Lennon wall in Prague.
Jewish trail includes cemetery.
FRANCE
Chopin's Piano is in the Museum of Music, part of the Philharmonic museum in Paris which displays musical instruments and holds exhibitions.:
https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/en/musee-de-la-musique
GERMANY
Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn Museum, Hamburg.
Indonesia
In Indonesia you might use the word gamelan which means the music, repertoire, the orchestra or the instruments of the orchestra. Dangdut is a type of music in Jakarta, originally classical but now gone pop - plative and tuneful and rhythmic love songs. We have an album called Nostalgia Dangdut, very tuneful music.
ISRAEL
Amy Winehouse and others in a mural.
ITALY
Opera season in Verona.
Puccini House.
JAPAN
Lennon.
MALAYSIA
NETHERLANDS
POLAND
Chopin statue in Warsaw and Chopin in several museums in Poland and other countries.
ROMANIA
Rhapsody Romaine music box. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
George Enescu. Photo from Wikipedia. Public domain.
Enescu house. (George Enescu, 1881-1955, composer, conductor, pianist, violinist.)
SPAIN
UK
Amy Winehouse statue and trail, and Jewish museum, Camden, N W London, England.
Handel and Hendrix museums, central London, England.
Wesley statue in Marylebone and museum in London, England.
Elgar museum.
Beatles Museum, statues, trail, Liverpool.
Handel statue in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
USA
Al Jolson statue in cemetery.
Elvis, Graceland and many more.
Graceland. Memphis, Tennessee. Photo by Joseph Novak, Flickr, Wikipedia.
Stephen Foster - known as the father of American music, composed many of your favourite classic songs including Oh Susana and Beautiful Dreamer.
Composers and songwriters include: prolific Dolly Parton who created Dollywood and wrote Love is like a Butterfly and many more), and Stephen Foster.
Featured singers include: Elvis
Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee.
Opryland, Nashville, Tennessee.
Murals include Whitney Houston.
https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g58704-d531960-i172136913-Jimi_Hendrix_Grave_Site-Renton_Washington.html
Many tour companies specialise in music tours.
USEFUL WEBSITES
Post constantly updated. Come back later for more.
wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wintergatan (The Marble Music Machine) Sweden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_museums
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_%26_Felix_Mendelssohn_Museum hamburg, Germany.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whitney_Houston_Memorial_Mural.JPG USA.
https://www.rockhall.com/ (Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/h/roubiliacs-handel/ (Victoria and Albert Museum Handel statue.)
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Angela Lansbury, BA Hons, ACG, ALB. Travel writer and photographer, author, speaker, trainer specialising in the English language, etiquette and communication.
I have several more posts on singers and composers and music.See next post and other posts on Amy Winehouse.
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