MUSIC MUSEUMS WORLDWIDE

If you are planning a trip to another city or country, or in your own home town or city, you might want to add in a music museum.

UK

Horniman Museum S London.

Huge cllection of instruments. Listening posts at teach section. 

The museum is free. 

Also outdoors where is a large item with different sounds which children can strike and hear the different sounds.

USA

Scottsdale

The world's largest music museum.

New Orleans

Jazz mussum

Touring

National Guitar Museum

AUSTRALIA

Museum with large Guitar statue outside.

Big Golden Guitar, (about 40 feet tall) outside the Gallery of Stars Wax Museum.

AUSTRIA

1 Museic Mile, Vienna.

5 point stars to Smetana, Strauss and many more.

2 Vienna cemetery with composers' corner.

3 Sound of Musidc Movie Cemetery site

The cemetery where the stars of the film hid was reproduced in the studio. Here in the video is the original which inspired the movie scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC5eXUl9pOw

FINLAND

Sibelius Museum, Turku

FRANCE

Paris

Edith Piaf

Chopin 

JAMAICA

Bob Marley

Reggae

POLAND

Chopin

RUSSIA

Tchaikovsky

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Music_museums

https://www.nationalguitarmuseum.com/

Sound of Music cemetery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC5eXUl9pOw

Please share links to this blog post and your other favourites on my blogs.

French Landmarks, French fun learning the language, false friends and braving bed bugs

Wine Museum, France.

Paris

Often voted the world most romantic city and one of the most visited.

Well known landmarks include the Eiffel Tower, Montmartre. 

Places to visit, Disneyland for families. Pere Lachaise cemetery one of the world's most visited cemeteries and the one most visited in Paris. Thousands of graves and famous people have graves, such as French singer Edith Piaf and others who died in France such as composer Chopin and English writer and wit, Oscar Wilde.

Wine

If you are after French wine, Paris has a wine museum. 

The other big and recent wine museum is down south. 

Lost I Translation

If you want the recipe, the word is recette. However, that is not the word for receipt.

recipe is recette

receipt is recu (with a cedilla)

Bed Bug Cautions and Precautions

Any Precautions? check beds for bedbugs and put suitcases on metal leg stands, not on beds.

If you are unlucky, suggested remedies include wash clothes on highest heat, or put in freezer.

To brush up  your French online or in person, visit a French speaking Toastmasters club in Singapore, France, Belgium, Switzerland or Canada. In Singapore the new language learners club is meeting online on Sundays at 9 pm Singapore time. The club meets every Sunday and two Thursdays a month, one Thursday devoted to English language, grammar, spelling and all things educational and entertaining. Each meeting has a language theme with one or two speeches lasting 5 to 7 minutes on the language allocated. However, you can do a speech in any language, providing you provide an English translation. It is always entertaining.

Useful Websites

https://paris-tourism.com/en/museums/wine-museum/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_du_Vin

dictionary.reverso.net/french-english

collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/french-english

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12619161/Travel-avoid-bedbug-infestation-luggage-Paris.html 

PS if you are visiting Singapore or holding an event,

https://allevents.in/singapore/exhibitions

Cemeteries and monuments may be destroyed so visit them now and take photos

I was horrified when I discovered that cemeteries in the UK allow bodies or ashes to remain only 25 years. This is becoming increasingly common in the UK.

You can't get graves of spouses or children alongside each other either. Years ago you had family burial plots, mausoleums.

The new system means in 25 years a widow or widower will die, then if there are no descendants the grave is lost.

A whole generation of monuments disappear. The records of what people died of and how long they lived and their profession. Genealogists will lose whole generations.

It is not as if Australia or the USA are short of land. What about the Desert? Or even skyscrapers of the dead and multi-level basements.

At the current cost, it's cheaper to bury somebody in a back garden, with more chance in some countries that the gravestone and grave contents will remain.

In Singapore, some cemeteries have been dug up to make way for buildings or motorways. In one area of Singapore, the graves were meticulously recorded by a group devoted to photographing all the inscriptions.

Now you can look online for Find a grave and send volunteers or paid researchers to visit the graves you have found and take pictures.

When my family stopped paying the annual fees which would have granted a burial place, I was taken aback. However, you have to consider the cost of an expat being transported back to the home country.

In addition, apparently, if your body is returned to the UK for burial, even though you have lived abroad, you are charged inheritance tax in the UK.

Do visit cemetereis while you can. I did a wonderful tour of the cemetery in New Orelans, but it was closed later.

If you want to visit graves of the famous and the war heroes and the masses, here are some well known cemeteries and graves of famous people:

MUSEUMS, GRAVES & MONUMENTS

AUSTRIA: Musicians' graves in Vienna.
CHINA: tombs of modern leaders. Xian terracotta warriors.
CZECH REPUBLIC: Prague: Jewish trail includes historic cemetery with guided tour.
EGYPT: Pyramids were tombs of Pharaohs.
FRANCE: Jules Vernes; Pere LaChaise cemetery, Paris; Normandy battlefields.
GERMANY: Belsen marker for Anne Frank (and sister Margot) at one point removed so that she was not taking precedence over and attention away from the many others who died there.
ITALY: Composer Puccini house and mounument.
JAPAN: Iwo Jima US cemetery.
MEXICO: Trotsky museum in his house with his grave.
NETHERLANDS; WWII cemeteries and memorials such Arnhem.
POLAND: Auschwitz. Chopin. Zamenof who invented Esperanto international language.
RUSSIA: Tombs of leaders such as Lenin.
SCOTLAND: Devoted dog monument near cemetery.
SINGAPORE: Changi Prison Museum and cemetery.
SPAIN. Madrid: Monument to the fallen.
TURKEY: Gallipoli. Engraving of magnanimous speech by Ataturk for former enemies. 'your sons buried here are now our sons ..."
UK : Hampstead; Highgate; Kensal Green. Scotland: grave to dog near cemetery in Edinburgh.
USA : Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC. Monument to Lee's horse. Civil war cemetery. Read about Galveston and New Orleans.
WALES: Roman gravestone in Caerleon Roman Museum.

Useful Websites
AUSTRALIA
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-45298239# Australian rent a grave law

WORLDWIDE
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31837964 BBC article entitled The World Is Running Out Of Burial
Space
COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES & CEMETERIES
https://www.cwgc.org/find
findagrave.com

SINGAPORE
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2018/04/lee-kuan-yews-grandfathers-grave.html
visitsingapore.com

JEWISH CEMETERIES & RULES FOR MOURNERS AT FUNERALS
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2017/10/frank-talk-about-jewish-funeral.html

GREECE & ALEXANDER THE GREAT
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2018/07/looking-for-alexander-great-and-doing.html

CHOPIN
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-chopin-trail-museums-and-monuments.html

INDIANS WITHOUT GRAVESTONES, ANNE FRANK, SPIKE MILLIGAN'S STONE WORDING
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2018/05/an-indian-view-of-life-anne-frank-and.html

MAJOR CEMETERIES FOR GUIDED TOURS INCLUDE
UK
London, Highgate Cemetery (Karl Marx) and many other cemeteries
Kensal Green Cemetery
Cemetery in Hampstead
visitbritain.com

FRANCE
Pere LaChaise Cemetery, Paris. Pop stars and personalities.
Normandy battlefields and baattlefield tours.

ITALY
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2177/giacomo-puccini

JAPAN
https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/11933/Japanese-War-Cemetery-Iwo-Jima.htm

PORTUGAL
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g189158-d3856170-Reviews-Cemiterio_dos_Prazeres-Lisbon_Lisbon_District_Central_Portugal.html

ROMANIA
Blue cemetery.
romaniatourism.com

SPAIN
visitspain.info

UK
visitlondon.com

USA
visittheusa.co.uk

Author
Travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
See my previous posts on cemeteries, funerals and burials and famous graves.

The Chopin Trail - museums and monuments in France and Poland

Problem
Where to go and what to see, connected with Chopin?

Answers:

1 POLAND
Grand monument to Chopin, in park, in Warsaw.

Map of Poland. Wikipedia.

Some city tours merely pass this - as happened to me on my first city tour.  Other tours, on request, will stop so you can run into the park and take a photo (which happened to me on a second city tour). Of course, everybody thinks you can just run in and take a photo of the sculpture in two minutes. But no. It's further than you think. Other people taking selfies get in your way. When You get close, you are too near to take in the whole sculpture without a wide angle lens. So you run this way and that, forward and back. Others from your coach are doing the same.

2 POLAND
Zelazowa Wola park, home of Chopin, museum (Dom Chopina).
Lovely park with ponds, trees, flowers, birdsong, tumbling water, half obliterated by the noise of groups or tourists and tour guides.
Inside the house you can see a piano, family portraits.

3 FRANCE
Grave of Chopin, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France.
Lots of other famous musicians and singers here, too.
More in other cemeteries around Paris. Singers such as Edith Piaf. Rock and pop stars. Famous lovers such as Heloise and Abelard.

Grave of Chopin in Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris, France. Notice the statue of the muse above, the portrait below, the protective railing around the monument. 

4 POLAND
His heart was carried back to Poland by his sister, who was with him in Paris when he died. He was his parents' only son, but he had three sisters, one older, two younger, one of whom had died much earlier.

What else can you see connected with Chopin? He had a ten-year relationship with writer George Sand, which ended badly and sadly, when he fell ill some time before he died at an early age, of 39.

TB and complications.

You can get a pretty good idea of everything from:
Wikipedia - good history and photos.
You tube video of the house and gardens of his home in Poland.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.

A Guided Walk From Green Park Station and The Ritz to Berry Brothers Wine Merchants Shop

Problem
What's the best route? What can I see and photograph on the way?

Answers
I am not an official London tour guide, although I have been on a day's training, observing. Just follow me, your friendly writer on the internet, and see what I saw. Starting from Green Park station you have lots of choices of walking routes. Coming out of Green Park station, I saw the Ritz hotel ahead. Since it was sunny, we saved that route for the return journey and headed into Green Park.

Every time I walk anywhere in London I see something new. As writer and dictionary compiler Johnson said, He who is tired of London is tired of life.

Walk through Green Park in the Queen's footsteps, or sit and read. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

An information panel told me the story of Queen Anne and how she used to walk along what is now Green Park, making houses overlooking the park more popular and expensive.

Walk south, as I did, to Berry Brothers & Rudd's new shop, I followed a friend, who knows the back routes. A few yards beyond the information panel a small alley leads between the houses.

Compare London and Bucharest
The Narrowest Street
When I was in Brasov, a regional capital of Romania, one of the city's main attractions was an alley called the narrowest street, or String Street.

String Street, Brasov, regional capital of Romania. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Narrow Alley off Green Park, London. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

This alley off Green Park seems equally small to me. I must go back and take a photo of somebody with their arms outstretched. You must do it before 10 pm when the passage is closed. If you visit, that would be an amusing photo. But this passage is technically private property, not a public street.

When you emerge at the other end, you can walk across to an old English hotel

Photo of exterior of hotel with British and American flags. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

As I walked towards the hotel, I saw a lady walking towards me carrying a bunch of flowers. How very English, I thought. I had not known that carrying bunches of flowers upwards was English, until I went to Romania. In Bucharest, the capital of Romania, people carry bunches of flowers with the heads downwards.

A women carrying bunches of flowers upwards in a street in London, England. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

A woman carrying a bunch of flowers with the heads down in Bucharest, capital of Romania. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

People carrying bunches of flowers, head down, in Bucharest, capital of Romania. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Elegant flowers in window boxes and a blue door. Georgian sash windows. London, England. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

A London blue heritage plaque saying that Frederic Chopin was here in London, England. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

I was passed by an Amphibian vehicle on a tour of London. I took these in Philadelphia, USA, and New York city, New York state, in the USA. Great fun when you tip into the water.  Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Whether you want to walk through Green Park, sit in the sun, or walk through the back streets of London, or take an amphibious tour, always plenty to see and do in London, England.

The second part of my walk and Berry Brothers is in the next post.


USEFUL WEBSITES
UK
https://tfl.gov.uk
https://art.tfl.gov.uk/projects/permanent-commission-by-daniel-buren/
www.visitlondon.com
www.londonpass.com
www.visitbritain.org
ROMANIA
www.tarom.ro Romanian budget airline.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.

Music Museums & Statues by Country A-Z

An A-Z of Musicians' statues, monuments and museums, by country, so you can see what's in the country you are staying in or visiting.

AUSTRALIA
Giant guitar statue outside museum of Australia's country music singer.

Kylie Minogue statue

AUSTRIA
Vienna
You can buy Mozart chocolates with his picture.
Statue/monument of Mozart on grave in cemetery. (I went there a while back and wrote an article on Vienna based on the theme of music.)

CUBA
John Lennon statue in Havana


EUROPE
Stradivarius statue

GERMANY
Musicians of Bremen
Mendelssohn's Grave

Bach

Beethoven

POLAND
Chopin Museum, Warsaw
Chopin statue, Warsaw
Statue of musician and piano Lodz





SWITZERLAND

UK

UK
London
Handel's Organ in St Lawrence's Church, Whitchurch Lane, Edgware

V and A

http://www.classicfm.com/discover/music/inspiring-composer-quotes/joseph-haydn/

Amy Winehouse statue, Camden

Freddie Mercury, Dominion theatre, London

www.musicalmuseum.co.uk/

Greater London 020 8560 8108

Musical Museum | Home

www.musicalmuseum.co.uk/

Coventry Museum

Liverpool
Monument to John Lennon




USA

Elvis Presley

Home of singer of He'll have to go

Opryland, Nashville, TN

Willie Nelson, Country Music singer, statue, Austin, Texas

John Lennon statue






MORE INFORMATION

http://www.pinterest.com/genoxa/famous-musicians-in-bronze-and-stone/

http://listosaur.com/entertainment/10-great-statues-honoring-legendary-rock-musicians/

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