Elvis's Memphis Mansion Museum in Denmark

 

For Elvis fans in Europe. Drive to Denmark. You can fly from the UK to Denmark on Ryanair.

At the destination, you can visit the museum, which has one of his cars, then see a replica of Elvis's birthplace. Sit in the diner and eat an Elvis sandwich which contains bacon, (Danish bacon?), peanut butter, and banana. Buy Elvis souvenirs in the shop.

The shop is open 10 am until 6 pm.

Where next?

When I was in the USA, most major museums I visited seemed to have a souvenir of Elvis on display. A car. A disc. A guitar. A costume. A photo of a visit.

The Netherlands

Elvis in the Amsterdam Madame Tussauds.

USA

Graceland, USA.

Useful Websites

https://www.memphismansion.com/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/escape/article-10274413/Honouring-Elvis-Presley-Memphis-Mansion-copycat-Graceland-Denmark.html

https://www.facebook.com/memphismansionranders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Mansion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley

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https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/top-places-elvis-presley-fans

https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/articles/the-most-impressive-elvis-shrines-in-the-united-states/

About the Author of this blog, Author Angela Lansbury

BIOGRAPHY

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 EH5 DL5 VC5 
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Speaker on radio and TV in England, Scotland, the USA, and Australia.

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MUSIC MUSEUMS & MUSICIANS: from Amy Winehouse and the Albert Hall to Elvis, to Country, Classical, Handel and Pucchini

 Thomas R Machnitzki (thomas@machnitzki.com) - Own work

Graceland covered with snow. Memphis, Tennessee.

Music themed gate showing guitarist and musical notes. It is often worth going to a home to photograph it, even if you don't have the time and money to visit, or the location is closed. You might be impressed by the location, read and photograph a plaque outside about the famous person who lived there, or talk to other tourists about your mutual hero, or other places to visit in the vicinity connected with the famous person.

If you do get inside, however much you know about your favourite famous person, there is always more to learn.


The Jungle Room, Graceland, USA. Photo from Wik'pedia.

Here's a list of music museums for you and your family to visit. I have made it alphabetical and by country ro help you compile a bucket list for your travels.

The list is compiled by categories, including composers, singers, country, auditoriums and statues of singers and musicians. Some singers and songs are associated with landmarks (Blue skies over the white cliffs of Dover), or statues or graves or monuments of people best known as film stars or other categories. For example, Marilyn Monroe was known for much else besides singing Happy Birthday to President Kennedy in New York, and may be featured in waxworks museums, at Niagara and the Hollywood Heritage Museum.

The long, obscure word auditorium comes from the root words for ear and listening. Aural - related to the ear. (Oral is speaking as in oratory.) Audible means can be heard.

Statue of Stephen Foster removed because of objections to the banjo playing slave. Photo from Wikipedia. What a pity. I thought the happy banjo player was charming and the best part of the statue.

MUSIC CATEGORIES
1 Country and Western
2 Blues
3 Opera
4 Classical music
5 Folk
6 National
7 Ethnic

ETHNIC
National anthem and patriotic and classic composers.
National anthem lyricists.
Jewish
Amy Winehouse, Gershwin, Marilyn Monroe (converted for husband playwright Miller). See videos on Youtube of: Amy Winehouse and Yiddish songs such as Roumania.

Greece
Composer of the national anthem on a Greek island.



Sydney Opera House, Australia

AUSTRALIA
Sydney Opera House

FRANCE
Opera House, Paris

ITALY
Venona, open air opera
La Scala Opera House
Torre Del Lago, home of Puccini, statue outside.

Torre Del Lago, Italy, former home of Puccini, now a museum.

POLAND
Huge Chopin statue, landmark shown on tours of Warsaw.
Chopin House museum.

ROMANIA
See Youtube video of Yiddish drinking song Roumania by Aaron Lebedeff.

SWITZERLAND
Statue of Freddie Mercury in Montreux, and Museum devoted to him and his band, Queen.

Bernd Brägelmann - Bernd Brägelmann

Freddie Mercury Statue in Montreux, Switzerland. 

Amy Winehouse waxwork in Madame Tussaud's, London, England.

UK
Amy Winehouse in Madame Tussauds, Baker Street, London.
Amy Winehouse statue and trail and Jewish museum in Camden, London.
Handel museum in London.
Hendrix museum beside Handel Museum in London.
Handel's organ in Whitchurch Lane, Edgware, NW London, England.
Elgar Museum.

Handel and Hendrix museums on the upper floors of these two adjacent houses in London.

USA
Elvis, Graceland. Cars and guitars in many museums in the USA.
Hollywood Heritage Museum, Los Angeles.
Nashville (country music).
Dollywood.
Opryland.

FESTIVALS & MUSIC VENUES

UK
Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Sadlers Well
Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London, England
Royal Albert Hall
Elgar Birthplace Museum

Elgar Birthplace Museum.

Elgar composed the music for Land of Hope and Glory which is played at Last night of the proms, in the Albert Hall in London, England.

EVENTS
New Year's Day concert broadcast from Vienna, Austria, on TV and radio in the UK.

Useful Websites
https://www.facebook.com/ScottishOpera
https://www.viennaconcerts.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Puccini
https://handelhendrix.org/
https://www.dollywood.com/
Roumania Music only:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0agi_Gj2IEc

About the Author
Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer, author and speaker, trainer specialising in public speaking and business English..

Tune In To Local Radio When Travelling - Lessons Learned from country songs

Stephen Foster Monument, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Sculptor: Giuseppe Moretti (1857—1935).

When you go to another country or another county on the UK, tune into the local radio station as you drive along that dull motorway. Why?
1 It will keep you awake so you avoid accidents; you can sleep at night.
2 It will be an entertainment on a dull motorway.
3 It will be a social education.
4 You will be up with the local and worldwide news, well-informed, in touch with local people, which endears you to them and helps you develop rapport and sympathy and enjoy their company.
5 You have a subject of conversation when you meet people at the other end.
6 You will be energised.
7 You will be calmed.
8 You will be optimistic.
9 You will not be wasting time driving.
10 You don't have to talk to entertain the passengers and drivers.



UK
 In the UK you can tune your car radio to radio 3 for classic music and 4 for talks. if your car or coach is stuck you can keep everybody amused with rounds of classic songs. At school and on holiday I would hear English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh classics such as: When Irish eyes are smiling; In Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty ...(Molly Malone); I lost my darling Clementine. Bring back my bonny to me; A Gordon For me; You take the high road and I'll take the low road and I'll be in Scotland before thee; Men of Harlech. Old Lang Syne.

You can do a Beatles tour in London or Liverpool. the Beatles music and songs and stories are everywhere.


USA
When I went to live in the USA music was even more strongly promoted everywhere. I always feel very stirred and emotional when I hear: My (or mine) eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord ...

My mind automatically fills in the next line
They are treading out the vineyards where the grapes of wrath are stored ....

Here are some of my experiences when travelling.

I found relics of Elvis in many cities, cars and guitars, not only in Graceland.

In Opryland where I went to write about the hotel and the museums the staff had tuned the bedroom radio to play country music when I opened the door of the hotel bedroom.

Dolly Parton. Jim Reeves. Garth Brooks. The Dixie Chicks.

That's why I hang my hat in Tennessee.

There is a house in New Orleans

Chicago, Chicago.

New York, New York. My kind of town.

Shuffle off to Buffalo.

I get my kicks on route 66.

AROUND THE USA
Diving through the USA I heard a lot of country music. I picked up a lot of Americanisms by listening to talk shows and songs.

I learned to love country and western songs for their comments on life, stories, and sometimes smart twist ending.

Everybody who speaks English is likely to have heard the traditional songs from George and Ira Gershwin, and all the musicals such as Oklahoma, Elvis classics - Bob Dylan's Blowing in the Wind, Bridge over troubled water, the Everly Brothers, plus more modern classics such as Cabaret, and Hallelujah.

When I visited the Stephen Forster Memorial Museum I was amazed by the number of American songs I had learned as a child in the UK. For example:
My Old Kentucky Home
Oh Susanna.

Country Music
Here are some of my favourite country and western songs:
Country Roads
Coal Miner's Daughter

Some Favourite US songs
I want to be in America (West Side Story)

CANADA
Museum in the National Music Centre,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Music_Centre

Some places to visit in the USA

MUSIC INFORMATION
Pittsburgh
Stephen Forster Memorial and Museum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Foster
https://www.godtube.com/news/10-great-country-songs-that-tell-a-story.html
https://songsear.ch/song/Gladys-Knight-The-Pips/It-Should-Have-Been-Me/164397
https://www.metrolyrics.com/why-didnt-i-think-of-that-lyrics-doug-stone.html
https://songsear.ch/song/Garth-Brooks/Unanswered-Prayers/245643
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/johnnyhorton/whenitsspringtimeinalaskaitsfortybelow.html
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/07/12-songs-with-twist-endings.
Fifty songs - and more like 100 twist endings
https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=81169

https://www.weddingwire.com/wedding-ideas/proposal-songs

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/03/musicians-statues-and-murals-more.html

TRAVEL INFORMATION
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opryland_USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Music_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum
visitbritain.com
visittheusa.co.uk

About The Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. I have many more posts on statues of musicians and houses and trails, and songs, such as Amy Winehouse, The Beatles, Handel and Jimi Hendrix. Please bookmark and share links to your favourite posts.

Music Museums, Murals And Statues To Visit Worldwide:Where to learn about Instruments, Automata, Singers , Composers

I am an enthusiastic collector of musical instruments to play on stage as a comic speaker and entertainer. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

I was watching a YouTube video of a marble music machine and went off to do some research on the Swedish Wintergatan band. The creator is part of a four-person music ensemble. He was inspired by seeing automata at a museum - many clock and musical instrument museums combine clocks and automata and musical instruments. If you are interested in any of these three when you visit a museum you are likely to come across and will be interested in the others.


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.

Fanny and Felix Museum, Hamburg, Germany. Photo from Wikipedia by author Ymnes.

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.)

RUSSIA

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.

Elvis Enthusiasts - where to see Elvis memorabilia and events

The great Elvis shrine is Graceland in Memphis but there are many more cities and countries where you can still see places and items and connected with Elvis and learn about his visits, films, recordings, and events. (List at end, but read on through this post.)

USA
When I lived in the USA we had not yet discovered distant family there, so we were free to go travelling every weekend. Without even looking for them, I found Elvis items all over the USA and Canada. A car or guitar seemed to pop up everywhere, a disc in a rock theme restaurant, a car in a car museum, a guitar in a music museum, a statue in a waxworks, photos in a local history museum. Or a hotel with a room where he stayed a night, a hall where he performed music, or a landmark where he filmed. Worldwide sites were to be found: in the USA, Canada, UK.

TENNESSEE
I went on a press trip to Opryland, Nashville, Tennessee. We stayed at the Opryland Hotel. It was huge. When somebody phoned me from the lobby to say, 'come down and meet us, our coach is here,' it would take me 20 minutes to get from my room at the far end of the building all the way to the  nearest lobby, then on to the correct lobby, in the other half of the multi-storey figure of eight building. Endless walking galleries overlooked and wound around the two (or more) bandstands and themed restaurants.

The best thing about my stay at Opryland was that the room service set the radio to play Elvis and Country Music which was playing when I opened the door of my bedroom. I was so happy. I had just flown in from England. I knew I was in the USA. I knew I was in or near Nashville, the heart of Country music

In the evening we went to an Opryland music theme park concert featuring singers. We had a chance to meet Brenda Lee in the interval.

BRENDA LEE
She was sitting sewing. The journalists were allowed only one question each, so as not to tire her, and to give them all an equal chance. My question was: 'What do you think Elvis died of?'

I assumed she must have been asked many times. so she would react phlegmatically, giving a stock answer. To my surprise, she was flustered and upset and said, "I wish we knew. If we had known, perhaps we could have done something to help prevent it."

You can also visit events:
1 Elvis competitions. (USA)
2 Elvis theme nights at restaurants with Elvis lookalike singers. (UK)(See my previous post for events at Orama restaurant in Hatch End, NW London, England, during 2016.)

Should you wish to be married by an Elvis lookalike, somewhere there's a chapel, or two or more, in the USA's favourite wedding location, where you can do so. If you missed out on this the first time you got married, there's always the next time. (Or, if you stay married, a renewal of vows, your children's bar mitzvah parties, or your daughter's wedding.) Or hire your own Elvis outfit for a fancy dress party for New Year's Eve or a friend's 'Fifties' or 'Sixties' theme birthday party. (We hired one in Singapore. A white suit.)

Elvis Sites - Here are my favourites:
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Sun studio (museum, hourly tours led by a musician, photo spots, food).
Graceland and Gravesite in Graceland.

Photo by Ron Cogswell
Tupelo, Mississippi, USA. Birthplace museum.

Elvis Sites Websites
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/aug/17/top-10-elvis-presley-memphis-attractions
graceland.com
http://travelblog.viator.com/11-sights-and-tours-perfect-for-the-elvis-fan/
http://www.elvis-history-blog.com/elvis-sites.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Hawaii
His pink Cadillac is in Graceland. Read about his cars and Australia connections here:
http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/elvis_presleys_1955_pink_cadillac.shtml
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