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This worldwide list of music museums encompasses past and present museums that focus on musicians, musical instruments or other musical subjects.

Argentina

• Museo de las Campanas [es] – Mina Clavero
• Academia Nacional del Tango de la República Argentina – Buenos Aires
• Museo de instrumentos musicales Emilio Azzarini [es] – La Plata
• Museo Beatle [nl], dedicated to The Beatles – Buenos Aires

Armenia

• House-Museum of Aram Khachaturian, dedicated to Aram Khachaturian – Yerevan
• Charles Aznavour Museum, dedicated to Charles Aznavour – Yerevan

Australia

• National Film and Sound Archive – Acton, Australian Capital Territory
• Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute – Adelaide, South Australia
• National Library of Australia – Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
• Australian Country Music Hall of Fame – Tamworth, New South Wales^[1]
• Slim Dusty Centre – Kempsey, New South Wales^[2]
• Grainger Museum, dedicated to Percy Grainger – University of Melbourne, Victoria
• Australian Performing Arts Collection – Melbourne
• Arts Centre Melbourne, musical collection – Melbourne
• ARIA Hall of Fame – Melbourne
• Australian Jazz Museum – Wantirna, Victoria

Austria

Pasqualati-Haus

Dedicated to composers

dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven

• Beethoven-Haus– Krems an der Donau
• Beethoven-Haus Baden [de] – Baden bei Wien, Vienna
• Erdődy estate [de] (1973–2013) – Floridsdorf, Vienna
• Bezirksmuseum Floridsdorf [de], musical collection – Floridsdorf
• Eroica-Haus [nl] – Vienna
• Haus des Heiligenstädter Testaments [de] – Vienna
• Pasqualati-Haus [de] – Vienna
• Beethoven-Haus Probusgasse – Vienna

dedicated to Anton Bruckner

• Anton Bruckner Museum – Ansfelden
• Kronstorfer Brucknerzimmer [nl] – Kronstorf

dedicated to Johannes Brahms and/or Joseph Haydn

• Brahms Museum, Mürzzuschlag – Mürzzuschlag
• Haydn-Haus Vienna [nl] with Brahms room – Vienna
• Haydn-Haus Eisenstadt [de] – Eisenstadt
• Haydnkirche – Eisenstadt
• Haydn's birthplace, dedicated to Joseph and Michael Haydn – Rohrau

dedicated to Gustav Mahler

• Composing hut of Gustav Mahler – Steinbach am Attersee
• Composing hut of Gustav Mahler – Maiernigg near Maria Wörth

dedicated to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and/or family members

• Mozarthaus, [de] dedicated to Nannerl Mozart and her mother – St. Gilgen
• Mozart's birthplace – Salzburg
• Mozarts Wohnhaus [nl], dedicated to the whole family – Salzburg
• Mozarthaus – Vienna

dedicated to Franz Schubert

• Schloss Atzenbrugg [de] – Atzenbrugg
• Schubert's birthplace – Vienna
• Death house of Franz Schubert [nl] – Vienna

dedicated to the Strauss family

• Museum der Johann Strauss Dynastie, dedicated to the family Strauss – Vienna
• Johann Strauss Wohnung [nl], dedicated to Johann Strauss II – Vienna

dedicated to Arnold Schoenberg

• Schönberg-Haus [de] – Mödling
• Arnold Schönberg Center – Vienna

dedicated to other composers

• Zeitbrücke-Museum [de], partly dedicated to Franz von Suppé – Gars am Kamp
• Lehár Villa, dedicated to Franz Lehár – Bad Ischl
• Carl Zeller-Museum [nl], dedicated to Carl Zeller – St. Peter in der Au
• Liszthaus, dedicated to Franz Liszt – Raiding
• Pleyel Museum, dedicated to Ignaz Pleyel – Ruppersthal, near Großweikersdorf

Vienna (other museums)

• Fatty-George-Jazzmus [nl], dedicated to Fatty George
• Haus der Musik
• Kunsthistorisches Museum, musical collection
• Vienna Technical Museum, musical collection

Other museums

• Eboardmuseum – Klagenfurt
• Musikinstrumentenmuseum Schloss Kremsegg [nl] – Kremsmünster
• Stille-Nacht & Heimatmuseum [de], partly dedicated to Silent Night – Oberndorf bei Salzburg
• Blasmusikmuseum [nl] – Ratten

Azerbaijan

• Azerbaijan State Museum of Musical Culture – Baku

Belarus

• Czesław Niemen Museum [pl], dedicated to Czesław Niemen – Staryya Vasilishki

Belgium

East and West Flanders

• Jazz Center Flanders, with jazz museum – Dendermonde
• Peter Benoit Huis, dedicated to Peter Benoit – Harelbeke
• Organ collection Ghysels – Kallo, Beveren
• Music Museum De Harmonie [nl] – Koekelare
• Jukebox Museum Menen [nl] (2012–2017) – Menen

Province of Antwerp

• Museum Vleeshuis – Antwerp
• Harmonium Art museuM – Klein-Willebroek
• Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn", dedicated to Jef Denyn – Mechelen
• Barrel Organ Museum Voortkapel [nl] – Voortkapel, Westerlo

Brussels and Flemish Brabant

• Archive and Museum for Flemish Way of Living [nl], musical collection – Brussels
• Musical Instrument Museum – Brussels
• Popular Instruments Museum Gooik [nl] – Gooik
• South-West Brabant Museum, collection of cellist François Servais and family – Halle
• Jazz Station – Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
• Brabant Center for Music Traditions – Kampenhout
• Museum van de Radio- en Televisie-Omroep [nl] (1979–1996) – Schaerbeek

Limburg

• Stedelijk Beiaardmuseum [nl] – Hasselt
• Museum for Musical Instruments Peer [nl] (?–2014) – Peer
• Armand Preud'homme Museum (1990–2018), dedicated to Armand Preud'homme – Peer

Wallonia

• Mr Sax's House, dedicated to Adolphe Sax – Dinant
• Bell and Carillon Museum (1992–2013) – Tellin

Brazil

• Museu da Imagem e do Som de Bauru [pt] – Bauru
• Museu da Imagem e do Som de Campinas [pt] – Campinas
• Museu da Imagem e do Som de Campo Grande [pt] – Campo Grande
• Museu da Imagem e do Som do Ceará [pt] – Ceará
• Museu da Imagem e do Som de Cuiabá [pt] – Cuiabá
• Museu da Imagem e do Som de Alagoas – Maceió
• Museu da Música de Mariana [pt] – Minas Gerais
• Museu da Imagem e do Som do Pará [pt] – Pará
• Luiz Gonzaga Museum [pt], dedicated to Luiz Gonzaga – Pernambuco
• Museu da Imagem e do Som do Rio de Janeiro – Rio de Janeiro
• Reggae Maranhão Museum – São Luís
• Villa-Lobos Museum, dedicated to Heitor Villa-Lobos – Rio de Janeiro^[3]
• São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound – São Paulo

Burkina Faso

• Musée de Manega, musical collection – Oubritenga
• National Musical Museum – Ouagadougou

Canada

British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan

• Gervais Wheels Museum – Alida, Saskatchewan^[4]
• National Music Centre – Calgary
• Creative Kids Museum, musical collection – Calgary
• Canadian Music Hall of Fame – Calgary
• Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame – Calgary
• Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame – Merritt
• Revelstoke Nickelodeon Museum – Revelstoke^[5]

Nova Scotia and Quebec

• Musée des ondes Emile Berliner dedicated to the history of music recording – Montreal^[6]
• Celtic Music Interpretive Centre^[7] – Judique^[8]
• Hank Snow Home Town Museum,^[9] dedicated to Hank Snow – Liverpool^[10]
• Musée de l'Accordéon^[11] – Montmagny^[12]
• Anne Murray Centre, dedicated to Anne Murray – Springhill

Ontario

• Forest City Gallery, musical collection – London
• Youngtown Rock and Roll Museum, dedicated to Neil Young – Omemee^[13]
• Franco-Ontarian Folklore Centre – Greater Sudbury^[14]
• Shania Twain Centre (2001–2013), dedicated to Shania Twain – Timmins
• Ontario Science Centre, musical collection – Flemingdon Park, Toronto
• Barn Dance Historical Society Entertainment Museum – Wingham^[15]

Cape Verde

• Museu da Tabanka, dedicated to tabanka music – Assomada

China

Choir Organ Museum

• Choir Organ Museum – Gulangyu, Fujian^[16]
• Gulangyu Piano Museum – Gulangyu, Fujian^[17]
• Heilongjiang Music Museum, musical instruments – Harbin, province of Heilongjiang^[18]
• Drum Tower of Xi'an – Xi'an, province Shaanxi
• Wuhan Museum, musical instruments collection – Wuhan, province of Hubei

Czech Republic

Antonín Dvořák Museum, Prague

dedicated to composers

dedicated to Antonín Dvořák

• Birth House of Antonín Dvořák [nl] – Nelahozeves
• Antonín Dvořák Museum – Prague
• Antonín Dvořák Museum (Sychrov) [nl] – Sychrov
• Antonín Dvořák Museum (Vysoké u Příbramě) [cs] – Vysoká u Příbramě
• Antonín Dvořák Museum (Zlonicích) [cs] – Zlonice

dedicated to Leoš Janáček

• Leoš Janáček Museum (Brno) [nl] – Brno
• Leoš Janáček Museum (Hukvaldy) [cs] – Hukvaldy

dedicated to Bedřich Smetana

• Bedřich Smetana Museum (Jabkenice) [nl] – Jabkenice
• Birth House of Bedřich Smetana [cs] – Litomyšl
• Bedřich Smetana Museum (Obříství) [nl] – Obříství
• Bedřich Smetana Museum – Prague

dedicated to other composers

• Josef Suk Museum, dedicated to Josef Suk – Křečovice
• Pavel and Antonín Vranický exihibition [cs], dedicated to Paul Wranitzky, Antonín Vranický and Jan Novák – Nová Říše

Villa Bertramka

• Centrum Bohuslava Martinů [cs], dedicated to Bohuslav Martinů – Polička
• Bertramka (temporally closed),^[19] dedicated to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Prague
• Památník Jaroslava Ježka – Blue Room [cs] – Modrý pokoj, dedicated to Jaroslav Ježek – Prague
• Memorial Room František Drdla [cs], dedicated to František Drdla – Žďár nad Sázavou

Other museums

• Music Without Musicians – Hořovice
• Citerárium [cs] – Ostrava
• Czech Musical Museum [cs] – Prague
• Lobkowicz Palace, partly dedicated to classical music – Prague
• PopMuseum [nl] – Prague
• Museum of folk bands [cs] – Lesonice
• Muzeum středního Pootaví [nl], collection bagpipes – Strakonice

Denmark

• Memory Lane Rock Museum [da] – Knebel
• The Danish Music Museum (Musikmuseet) – Copenhagen
• Carl Nielsen Museum, dedicated to Carl Nielsen – Odense
• Memphis Mansion, dedicated to Elvis Presley – Randers
• Museum Ragnarock [da] – Roskilde
• Nysted Orgelmuseum – Nysted^[20]

Estonia

• Estonian Theatre and Music Museum – Tallinn

Finland

• Ainola, dedicated to Jean Sibelius – Järvenpää
• Military Music Museum of Finland – Lahti
• Sibelius Museum, dedicated to Jean Sibelius – Turku
• Mechanical Music Museum [fi] – Varkaus
• Villa Kokkonen, dedicated to Joonas Kokkonen – Järvenpää

France

Paris

• Musée des Arts et Métiers – 3rd arrondissement
• Salon Frédéric Chopin, dedicated to Frédéric Chopin – 4th arrondissement
• Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra National de Paris – 9th arrondissement
• Musée du Hard Rock Café – 9th arrondissement^[21]
• Musée Édith Piaf, dedicated to Édith Piaf – 11th arrondissement
• Musée-Placard d'Erik Satie, dedicated to Erik Satie – 18th arrondissement
• Musée de la Musique – 19th arrondissement
• Phono Museum^[22] (France) – 9th arrondissement^[23]

Josephine Baker Museum

Other museums

• Musée de la musique – Anduze^[24]
• Josephine Baker Museum, Château des Milandes, dedicated to Josephine Baker – Castelnaud-la-Chapelle^[25]
• Museum of Musical Instruments, Céret – Céret
• Musée de l'art forain et de la musique mécanique – Conflans-en-Jarnisy^[26]
• Musée Hector-Berlioz – birthplace of Hector Berlioz – La Côte-Saint-André
• Musée des instruments à vent [fr] – La Couture-Boussey
• Musée Claude-Debussy, dedicated to Claude Debussy – Saint-Germain-en-Laye
• Musée de la musique mécanique^[27] – Les Gets^[28]
• Maisons Satie, dedicated to Erik Satie – Honfleur^[29]
• Musée européen d'art campanaire [fr] – L'Isle-Jourdain, Gers
• Musée du piano de Limoux [fr] – Limoux
• Musée de la musique mécanique – Mirecourt^[30]
• Musée de la Lutherie et de l'Archèterie françaises – Mirecourt
• Le Belvédère [fr], dedicated to Maurice Ravel – Montfort-l'Amaury
• MuPop [fr] – Montluçon
• Palais Lascaris, musical instruments museum – Nice
• Musée de la chanson française – La Planche^[31]
• Ferme des orgues [fr] – Steenwerck

Germany

Baden-Württemberg

• Brahms House, dedicated to Johannes Brahms – Baden-Baden
• Deutsches Musikautomaten-Museum – Bruchsal
• Bezirksmuseum Buchen [de], partly dedicated to Joseph Martin Kraus – Buchen
• Augustiner Museum, musical instruments collection – Freiburg
• German Phono Museum – Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald
• Glockenmuseum Stiftskirche – Herrenberg
• Musikhistorische Sammlung Jehle [nl] – Lautlingen, Albstadt
• Museum Bassermannhaus für Musik und Kunst [de] – Mannheim
• House of Music − Stuttgart
• Deutsches Harmonikamuseum [de] – Trossingen
• Elztalmuseum [de], collection mechanical musical instruments – Waldkirch
• Silcher-Museum [nl], dedicated to Friedrich Silcher – Weinstadt-Schnait

Bavaria

House Wahnfried

• Mozarthaus Augsburg [de], dedicated to Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Augsburg
• E.T.A. Hoffmann-Haus [de], dedicated to E. T. A. Hoffmann – Bamberg
• Franz-Liszt-Museum [nl], dedicated to Franz Liszt – Bayreuth
• House Wahnfried, dedicated to Richard Wagner – Bayreuth
• Heimatmuseum Berching [nl], partly dedicated to Christoph Willibald Gluck – Berching
• Carl Orff Museum [nl], dedicated to Carl Orff – Dießen am Ammersee
• Werner-Egk-Begegnungsstätte [nl], dedicated to Werner Egk – Donauwörth
• Sängermuseum [nl] – Feuchtwangen
• Richard-Strauss-Institut [nl], dedicated to Richard Strauss – Garmisch-Partenkirchen
• Geigenbaumuseum [nl] – Mittenwald
• Rockmuseum Munich [de] – Munich
• Orgelbaumuseum Ostheim vor der Rhön [de] – Ostheim vor der Rhön
• Stadsmuseum Schwabach [nl], with a collection of Adolf von Henselt – Schwabach
• Orgelzentrum Valley [de] – Valley
• Gebrüder-Lachner-Museum [nl], dedicated to Vinzenz, Franz and Ignaz Lachner – Rain

Berlin and Brandenburg

• Musik-Museum Beeskow [de] – Beeskow
• Brandenburgisches Orgelmuseum [de], Bad Belzig
• Piano Salon Christophori [de], dedicated to Bartolomeo Cristofori – Berlin-Gesundbrunnen
• Ramones Museum, dedicated to the Ramones – Berlin-Kreuzberg
• Berlin Musical Instrument Museum – Berlin-Tiergarten
• Kreismuseum Bad Liebenwerda [de], dedicated to August Friedrich, Johann Gottlieb and Carl Heinrich Graun – Bad Liebenwerda
• Scharwenka Kulturforum [nl], dedicated to Xaver and Philipp Scharwenka – Bad Saarow

Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Mecklenburgisches Orgelmuseum

• Ostholstein-Museum Eutin [de], partly dedicated to Carl Maria von Weber – Eutin
• Brahms-Haus Heide [nl], dedicated to Johannes Brahms – Heide
• Composers Quarter Hamburg – Hamburg-Neustadt
  • Brahms Museum, dedicated to Johannes Brahms
  • 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
  • Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn Museum, dedicated to Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn
• Hamburg Museum, musical collection – Hamburg-Neustadt
• Beatlemania Hamburg (2009–2012), dedicated to The Beatles – Hamburg-St. Pauli
• Jazz-Museum Bix Eiben [nl] (1987–2013) – Hamburg-Winterhude
• Ostrockmuseum Kröpelin [de] – Kröpelin
• Brahms-Institut, dedicated to Johannes Brahms and other composers – Lübeck
• Mecklenburgisches Orgelmuseum – Malchow

North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Bremen

• Haus Eller [de], piano museum – Bergheim
• Beethoven House, dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven – Bonn
• Schumannhaus Bonn [de], dedicated to Robert Schumann – Bonn-Endenich
• Orgelmuseum Borgentreich [de] – Borgentreich
• Elvis-Presley-Museum Düsseldorf [nl] (2011–2013), dedicated to Elvis Presley – Düsseldorf
• Musikinstrumente- und Puppenmuseum [de] (?-2011) – Goslar
• rock’n’popmuseum [de] – Gronau
• Haus Kemnade [de], musical instruments collection – Hattingen
• Klingendes Museum in der Burg Sternberg [de] – Extertal
• Stones Fan Museum, dedicated to The Rolling Stones – Lüchow
• Musik-Museum Monschau [de] (2009–2013) – Monschau
• Orgelmuseum Fleiter [de], dedicated to Friedrich Fleiter – Münster-Nienberge
• Harry’s klingendes Museum [de] – Schwarmstedt
• Organeum [de] – Weener

Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Hesse

• Wetterau-Museum [de], partly dedicated to Elvis Presley – Friedberg
• Hindemith Kabinett [nl], dedicated to Paul Hindemith – Frankfurt
• Spohr Museum [de], dedicated to Louis Spohr – Kassel
• Mutter-Beethoven-Haus [de], dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven – Koblenz
• Musical Instruments Museum Lißberg [nl] – Ortenberg-Lißberg
• Siegfrieds Mechanisches Musikkabinett [nl] – Rüdesheim am Rhein
• Musikantenland Museum – Thallichtenberg
• orgelARTmuseum [de] – Windesheim

Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt

Handel House

Musical Instruments Museum, Markneukirchen

• Villa Teresa, dedicated to Eugen d'Albert and Teresa Carreño – Coswig
• Kurt Weill Centre, dedicated to Kurt Weill – Dessau-Roßlau
• Carl Maria von Weber Museum, dedicated to Carl Maria von Weber – Dresden-Hosterwitz
• Richard-Wagner-Stätten Graupa [de], dedicated to Richard Wagner – Dresden-Graupa
• Gottfried-Silbermann-Museum [nl], dedicated to Gottfried Silbermann – Frauenstein
• Mauersberger-Museum [nl], dedicated to Rudolf and Erhard Mauersberger – Großrückerswalde
• Beatles-Museum Halle [de], dedicated to The Beatles – Halle
• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach House, dedicated to seven composers – Halle
• Handel House, dedicated to Georg Friedrich Händel – Halle
• Orgelbaumuseum Klosterhäseler [de] – Klosterhäseler
• Historisches Museum & Bachgedenkstätte [nl], collection Johann Sebastian Bach – Köthen
• Mendelssohn House, Leipzig, dedicated to Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn – Leipzig
• Bach Museum Leipzig, dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach – Leipzig
• Grieg-Begegnungsstätte [nl], dedicated to Edvard Grieg – Leipzig
• Museum of Musical Instruments of Leipzig University – Leipzig
• Schumann House, Leipzig, dedicated to Robert and Clara Schumann – Leipzig
• Carl-Loewe-Museum [nl], dedicated to Carl Loewe – Löbejün
• Musikinstrumenten-Museum Markneukirchen [de] – Markneukirchen
• Lindenmuseum Clara Schumann, dedicated to Clara Schumann – Müglitztal
• Reinhard-Keiser-Gedenkstätte [nl], dedicated to Reinhard Keiser, Johann Christian Schieferdecker, Johann David Heinichen, and Johann Friedrich Fasch – Teuchern
• Heinrich Schütz House, dedicated to Heinrich Schütz – Weißenfels
• Robert Schumann House, dedicated to Robert Schumann – Zwickau

Thuringia

• Schlossmuseum Arnstadt [nl], partly dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach – Arnstadt
• Thüringer Orgelmuseum [de] (1988–2009) – Bechstedtstraß
• Bachhaus, dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach – Eisenach
• Reuter-Wagner-Museum [de], dedicated to Richard Wagner – Eisenach
• Heinrich Schütz House, dedicated to Heinrich Schütz – Bad Köstritz
• Max-Reger-Archiv [de], dedicated to Max Reger – Meiningen
• Museum im Schloss Elisabethenburg, musical history and instruments – Meiningen
• Bach-Stammhaus [nl], dedicated to the Bach family and violins craft – Wechmar
• Liszt-Haus Weimar [de], dedicated to Franz Liszt – Weimar

Ghana

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

Greece

Philharmonic Society of Corfu

• Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments – Plaka, Athens
• Music Museum "Nikolaos Chalikiopoulos Mantzaros", dedicated to Nikolaos Mantzaros – Corfu
• Museum of Ancient Greek, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Musical Instruments – Thessaloniki
• Musical Museum of Macedonia [uk] – Thessaloniki

Guatemala

• Museo Casa K'ojom, at the Centro Cultural la Azotea, dedicated to Maya music – Jocotenango, Sacatepéquez^[32]

Hungary

Budapest

• Béla Bartók Memorial House, dedicated to Béla Bartók^[33]
• Frans Liszt Memorial Museum [nl], dedicated to Franz Liszt
• Zoltán Kodály Memorial Museum [nl], dedicated to Zoltán Kodály
• Museum of Music History^[34]

Other museums

• Egri Road Beatles Múzeum, dedicated to The Beatles – Eger
• Beethoven Memorial Museum [nl], dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven – Martonvásár

Iceland

• The Icelandic Museum of Rock 'n' Roll – Reykjanesbær
• Folk Music Centre – Siglufjörður^[35]

India

Melody World Wax Museum, Mysore

• Indian Music Experience:^[36] an interactive music museum – Bangalore^[37]
• Karnataka Folk Museum, musical collection – Bangalore^[38]
• Melody World Wax Museum, musical instruments collection (tribal, ethnic, folk & modern) − Mysore^[39]
• Melody World Wax Museum − Mysore^[40]

Indonesia

• Museum Musik Indonesia [id] – Malang

Iran

• Tehran Museum of Music – Tehran^[41]

Ireland

• Irish Rock N Roll Museum^[42] – Dublin^[43]
• Irish Music Hall of Fame – Dublin (1999-2001)^[44]

Israel

• the Hebrew Music Museu ^[45] – Jerusalem
• Violins of Hope – Tel Aviv

Italy

Museo Wagner, Venice

Northern Italy^[46][47][48]

• Museo Pietro Abbà-Cornaglia [it] – Alessandria
• Gustav Mahler Stube, with memorial dedicated to Gustav Mahler – Altschluderbach, Toblach
• Donizetti's birthplace, dedicated to Gaetano Donizetti – Bergamo
• Donizetti Museum, dedicated to Gaetano Donizetti – Bergamo
• Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica – Bologna
• Oratorium of San Colombano – Bologna
• Museo nazionale Giuseppe Verdi [it], dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi – Busseto
• Casa natale di Giuseppe Verdi [it], dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi – Busseto
• Villa Verdi, dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi – Busseto
• Civic Museum of Crema, musical collection – Crema
• Museo del violino – Cremona
• Museo Civico Ala Ponzone – Cremona
• Museum Via del Campo 29 rosso [it], dedicated to Fabrizio De André – Genoa
• Jazz Museum of Genoa [it] – Genoa
• Collezione Didattica piccolo Museo della Musica ^[49]– Lodi
• Fondo Musicale Greggiati, dedicated to Giuseppe Greggiati – Mantua
• Museum of Musical Instruments – Milan
• Museo Teatrale alla Scala, musical collection – Milan
• Casa natale di Arturo Toscanini [it], dedicated to Arturo Toscanini – Parma
• Museo storico Riccardo Barilla del Conservatorio di Parma – Parma
• Museum of Instruments for Popular Music [it] – Roncegno
• Museo Etnografico e dello Strumento Musicale a Fiato – Quarna Sotto
• Civico museo teatrale Carlo Schmidl [it], musical collection – Trieste
• Museo della Canzone – Vallecrosia
• San Maurizio, dedicated to music of Baroque Venice – Venice
• Museo Wagner, dedicated to Richard Wagner – Ca' Vendramin Calergi, Venice
• Arena MuseOpera, AMO [it] – Verona

Central Italy^[46][47][48]

• Museo internazionale della fisarmonicait [it]^[50] – Castelfidardo
• Museo degli strumenti musicali (Firenze) [it] – Florence
• Museo Enrico Caruso [it],^[51] dedicated to Enrico Caruso – Lastra a Signa
• Museo Gaspare Spontini [it], dedicated to Gaspare Spontini – Maiolati Spontini
• Organ Museum Santa Cecilia [it] – Massa Marittima
• Collezione Titta Ruffo [it], 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
• Museo della musica [it] – 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^[52]
• Museum for Calabrian Popular Music and Musical Instruments [it] – Isca sullo Ionio
• Museum of the Conservatory San Pietro a Majella [it] – Naples
• Cultural Centre Leonida Repaci [it], partly dedicated to Francesco Cilea and Nicola Manfroce – Palmi, Reggio Calabria

Jamaica

Bob Marley Museum

• Bob Marley Museum, dedicated to Bob Marley – Nine Mile
• Bob Marley Mausoleum – Kingston^[53]

Japan

Belgium Organ Museum

Tokyo

• Michio Miyagi Memorial Hall, dedicated to Michio Miyagi
• Orugōru no Chiisana Hakubutsukan [ja] (?–2013), mechanical musical instruments^[54]
• Museum of the Musashino Academia Musicae^[55]
• Min-On Musical Museum

Other museums

• Mandolin Melodies Museum – Aichi
• Kawaguchiko Music Box Forest [ja] – Fujikawaguchiko
• Musical Instruments Museum – Hamamatsu
• Musicbox Museum Izu [ja] – Izu, Itō^[56]
• Rokko Musicbox Museum [ja] – Kobe^[57]
• The Museum, successor of Belgium Organ Museum [ja] – Matsushima^[58]
• Misasa Violin Museum [ja] – Misasa
• Nasu Music Box Museum [ja] – Nasu
• Onyoku Loudspeaker Museum [ja] – Saikai
• Horie Organ Museum [ja] – Nishinomiya
• Japan Museum of Contemporary Toy & Hall of Music Box [ja] – Mimasaka
• Musical Museum of the Music College [ja] – Osaka
• Otaru Music Box Museum – Otaru
• John Lennon Museum (2000–2010), dedicated to John Lennon – Saitama
• Musicbox Museum of Lake Hamana [ja] – Shizuoka
• ARSBEL [ja] (2000-2010), organ museum – 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/Lietuvos teatro, muzikos ir kino muziejus – Vilnius

Madagascar

• University of Madagascar's Museum of Art and Archaeology, collection of musical instruments – Antananarivo

Mexico

• Museum of the Yucatecan Song – Mérida
• Casa de la Música Mexicana – Mexico City^[59]
• National Musical Library [es] – Mexico City

Mongolia

• Mongolian Theatre Museum – Ulaanbaatar

Netherlands

C+B Museum – Grolloo

North

• Barrel Organ Museum Assen [nl] (1987–2008) – Assen
• Harmonium Museum Netherlands [nl] – Barger-Compascuum
• Museum Vosbergen [nl] – Eelde
• Accordeon Museum Harte Meijer [nl] – Gasselternijveenschemond
• C+B Museum [nl], dedicated to Cuby + Blizzards – Grolloo
• Elvis Presley Museum Molkwerum [nl], dedicated to Elvis Presley – Molkwerum
• Museum Musica [nl] – Stadskanaal
• Barrel Organ Museum Folkloreklanken [nl] (2008–2012) – de Wijk

Beatles Museum – Alkmaar

Sound and Vision – Hilversum

West

• Beatles Museum Alkmaar [nl], dedicated to The Beatles – Alkmaar
• Geelvinck Early Piano Museum – Amsterdam
• Museum Geelvinck-Hinlopen (1991–2015) – Amsterdam
• Willy Alberti Museum [nl] (1997–2011/14), dedicated to Willy Alberti – Amsterdam
• G. Perlee Barrel Organ Museum [nl] – Amsterdam
• Geelvinck Pianola Museum [nl] – Amsterdam
• Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, musical collection – The Hague
• Music History Museum Scheurleer [nl] (1905–1935) – The Hague
• Barrel Organ Museum Haarlem – Haarlem
• Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision – Hilversum
• Museum RockArt [nl] – Hook of Holland
• Palingsound Museum [nl] – Volendam
• Musical Information and Documentation Centre Ton Stolk [nl] – Vlaardingen

Centre and east

• Watch & Listen Museum [nl] – Bennekom
• Elvis Presley Museum Culemborg [nl], dedicated to Elvis Presley – Culemborg
• National Organ Museum [nl] – Elburg
• Museum Geelvinck Kolthoorn – Heerde
• Accordeon Museum De Muse [nl] – Malden
• Gramophone Museum [nl] – Nieuwleusen
• 192 & Demis Roussos Museum [nl], dedicated to Radio Veronica and Demis Roussos – Nijkerk
• Harmonium Museum Paasloo [nl] – Paasloo, Steenwijkerland
• Museum Speelklok – Utrecht
• Geelvinck Music Museum Zutphen (2016–2019) – Zutphen
• Herman Brood Museum & Experience [nl] – Zwolle

South

• Museum Klok & Peel [nl] – Asten
• Gavioli Hall [nl], named after Anselmo Gavioli – Helmond
• Museum Dansant [nl] – Hilvarenbeek
• Jukebox Museum [nl] – Sint-Oedenrode
• Kessels, Muziek Instrumenten Tilburg [nl] – Tilburg

New Zealand

• Elvis Presley Museum (Hawera) [nl], dedicated to Elvis Presley – Hawera
• Whittaker's Live Musical Museum ^[60]– Auckland^[61]

Norway

Villa Lysøen

• Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen, dedicated to Edvard Grieg – Bergen
• Siljustøl, dedicated to Harald Sæverud, Bergen
• Ringve Museum – Lade
• Villa Lysøen, dedicated to Ole Bull – Os, Hordaland
• Rockheim – Trondheim
• Myllarheimen [no], dedicated to Torgeir Augundsson – Vinje

Philippines

• Jose R. Gullas Halad Museum – Cebu City

Poland

dedicated to Frédéric Chopin

• Fryderyk Chopin Museum – Warsaw
• Chopin family parlor – Warsaw
• Birthplace of Frédéric Chopin – Żelazowa Wola

dedicated to other musicians

• Feliks Nowowiejski Music Salon Museum [pl], 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

• Museum of the Polish National Anthem [pl] – Będomin
• Museum of Silesian Pipe Organs [pl] – Katowice
• Musical Instruments Museum in Poznań [pl] – Poznań
• Musical Instruments Museum in Szyba [pl] – Szyba
• Museum of Folk Musical Instruments [pl] – Szydłowiec
• Museum of Kashubian and Pomeran Literature and Music [pl] – Wejherowo

Portugal

• Museum of Portuguese Music – Estoril
• Fado Museum [pt] – Lisbon
• Museu Nacional da Música – Lisbon
• Museum of the Hot Club of Portugal – Lisbon^[62]
• Stringed Instruments Museum, string instruments museum – Tebosa
• Museu Fernando Lopes-Graça, dedicated to Fernando Lopes-Graça – Tomar^[63]

Puerto Rico

Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña

• Casa del Compositor Héctor Flores Osuna, dedicated to Héctor Flores Osuna – Caguas^[64]
• Casa del Trovador – Caguas^[65]
• Centro Musical Criollo José Ignacio Quintón, dedicated to José Ignacio Quintón – Caguas^[66]
• Casa Paoli, dedicated to Antonio Paoli – Barrio Cuarto, Ponce
• Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña – Barrio Tercero, Ponce
• Museo Pablo Casals [es] – San Juan
• Museum of Reggaeton and Daddy Yankee – at Plaza Las Américas Mall^[67]

Reunion

• Maison Morange [fr], also 'Musée des musiques et instruments de l'océan Indien' – Hell-Bourg

Romania

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

Russia

Museum of Music and Time

Moscow

• Glinka Museum [ru]
• Harmonica Museum, dedicated to Alfred Mirek^[68]
• Museum of Vladimir Vysotsky at Taganka Square, dedicated to Vladimir Vysotsky^[69]

Saint Petersburg

• Temple of Love, Peace and Music, dedicated to John Lennon^[70]
• Kamchatka, house of Viktor Tsoi^[71]
• Museum of the Alexandrinsky Theatre^[72]
• St.Petersburg State Museum, and branches:^[73]
  • House and Museum of Feodor Chaliapin^[73]
  • The Museum of Music and Music Instruments at the Count Sheremetev Palace^[73]
  • Rimsky-Korsakov Apartment and Museum, dedicated to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov^[73]
  • The Samoilov Actors' Family Museum^[73]

Other museums

• Museum of Sergei Taneyev, dedicated to Sergei Taneyev – Dyudkovo, Zvenigorod^[74]
• Museum Music and Time – Yaroslavl^[75]
• Tchaikovsky State House-Museum, dedicated to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky en Sergei Taneyev – Klin
• Rockmuseum – Ufa^[76]
• Ivanovka, former summer residence of Sergei Rachmaninoff – Tambov
• Musical Instrument Museum – Volgograd
• Tsjaikovski Museum, dedicated to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Votkinsk

Slovakia

• Slovak National Museum – Bratislava
• Guitar museum – Sobrance^[77]

Slovenia

• Birth House of Hugo Wolf – Ljubljana^[78]
• The Rolling Stones Museum, dedicated to The Rolling Stones – Portorož

South Africa

• Music of the Caab Centre – Franschhoek^[79]
• Adler Museum of the History of Music – Johannesburg^[80]

South Korea

• Ureuk Museum, course of music in Gaya and Silla – Goryeong, North Gyeongsang Province^[81]
• Museum of Musical Instruments of the World (MMIW) – Paju^[82]
• Hybe Insight, artist museum – Seoul^[83]
• Korean Folk Village – Yongin

Spain

Museu de la Música de Barcelona

House-Museum of Concha Piquer

Museo del Baile Flamenco

• Valldemossa Charterhouse, living of Frédéric Chopin – Valldemossa, Mallorca
• Casa–Museo del Timple, local string instruments (timples) – Teguise, Lanzarote^[84]

North coast

• Alfercam Museum [es], ethnic musical instruments – Avilés, Asturias
• Casa Museo Jesús de Monasterio, de dedicated to Jesús de Monasterio – Cabezón de la Sal, Cantabria^[85]
• International Bagpipe Museum – Gijón
• Soinuenea–Herri Musikaren Txokoa, Basque music – Oiartzun, Basque Country^[86]

North-east

• Museo del Órgano, dedicated to organs – Agüero, Aragon^[87]
• Museo Nino Bravo, dedicated to Nino Bravo – Aielo de Malferit, Valencia^[88]
• Museu de la Música de Barcelona – Barcelona
• Rock Museum [ca] – Barcelona
• Museo de Música Étnica^[89] – Busot, Valencia^[90]
• Museu Isaac Albéniz, dedicated to Isaac Albéniz – Camprodon, Catalonia^[91]
• Museo Pablo Sarasate, dedicated to Pablo Sarasate – Pamplona, Navarra^[92]
• Casa-Museo Julián Gayarre, dedicated to Julián Gayarre – Roncal, Navarra^[93]
• Museu Pau Casals, dedicated to Pablo Casals – el Vendrell, Catalonia^[94]
• House-Museum of Concha Piquer [nl], dedicated to Concha Piquer – Valencia

South

• Museo de la Música Étnica, music cultures worldwide – Barranda, Murcia^[95]
• Casa Museo Manuel de Falla, dedicated to Manuel de Falla – Granada^[96]
• Casa Museo Andrés Segovia, dedicated to Andrés Segovia – Linares, Jaén^[97]
• Museo de Raphael, dedicated to Raphael – Linares, Jaén^[98]
• Interactive musical museum of Málaga [es] – Málaga
• Museo del Baile Flamenco [es], dedicated to flamenco – Sevilla
• Museo de la Guitarra – Almeria

Central

• Museo Jacinto Guerrero, dedicated to Jacinto Guerrero – Ajofrín, Toledo^[99]
• Museo de Sonidos del Mundo / Museo de Instrumentos – Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos^[100]
• Museo Sara Montiel, dedicated to Sara Montiel – Campo de Criptana, Ciudad Real^[101]
• Casa Museo José Padilla, dedicated to José Padilla Sánchez – Madrid^[102]
• Fundación Victoria y Joaquín Rodrigo, dedicated to Victoria and Joaquín Rodrigo – Madrid^[103]
• Museo Hazen, piano collection – Las Rozas de Madrid, Madrid^[104]
• Museo de la Música. Colección Luis Delgado – Urueña, Valladolid^[105]

Sweden

ABBA: The Museum

Stockholm

• ABBA: The Museum, dedicated to ABBA
• Swedish Music Hall of Fame [sv]
• Stockholm Music Museum (1901–2010)
• Swedish Museum of Performing Arts

Other museums

• Jussi Björlingmuseum [sv], dedicated to Jussi Björling – Borlänge
• Smetana Room [sv], dedicated to Bedřich Smetana – Gothenburg
• Evert Taubes World [sv] (2008–2016), dedicated to Evert Taube – Göteborg
• Jazzens museum [nl], museum on jazz – Strömsholm
• Guitars – the Museum – Umeå
• Birgit Nilsson Museum, dedicated to Birgit Nilsson
• Zarah Leander-museet, dedicated to Zarah Leander

Switzerland

• Music Museum – Basel
• Salon des Pianos [nl] – Basel
• Musée Baud, named after instrument builders Frédy, Robert and Auguste Baud – L'Auberson
• Organ and Harmonium Museum [nl], Liestal
• Queen: The Studio Experience, dedicated to Queen – Montreux
• Museum of Timekeeping and Mechanical Musical Instruments – Oberhofen am Thunersee
• Musée suisse de l'Orgue [fr] – Roche^[106]
• Musée d'automates et de boîtes à musique – Sainte-Croix
• Museum for Musical Automates [de] – Seewen
• Richard Wagner Museum, Lucerne, dedicated to Richard Wagner – Tribschen
• SwissJazzOrama [nl], jazz museum – Uster

Taiwan

Chimei Museum

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

Tajikistan

• Gurminj Museum of Musical Instruments – Dushanbe

Tunisia

Ennejma Ezzahra Palace

• 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^[107] – Acton^[108]
• Musical Museum – Kew Bridge, Brentford
• Foundling Museum – Bloomsbury
• Horniman Museum, named after Frederick John Horniman – Forest Hill
• British Music Experience (2009–2014) – Greenwich
• Fenton House – Hampstead
• 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, Richmond upon Thames
• Museum of Army Music – Kneller Hall, Whitton, Richmond upon Thames
• The Royal College of Music Museum – South Kensington

Liverpool

• Cavern Mecca (1981–1984), dedicated to The Beatles
• The Beatles Story, dedicated to The Beatles
• 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^[109]
• Herschel Museum of Astronomy, musical exhibition, named after William and Caroline Herschel – Bath
• Holburne Museum – Bath
• 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^[110]
• Mechanical Museum and Doll Collection – Chichester^[111]
• Paul Corins Magnificent Music Machines (1967–2013) – Liskerad, Cornwall^[112]
• Mechanical Music Museum – Cotton^[113]
• 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^[114][115] partly moved to Sevenoaks
• John Taylor & Co, collections bells – Loughborough
• Elgar Birthplace Museum, dedicated to Edward Elgar – Broadheath
• Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum – Morpeth
• Keith Hardings World of Mechanical Music – Northleach^[116]
• Bate Collection of Musical Instruments – Oxford
• Ashmolean Museum, musical instruments – Oxford
• Pinchbeck, The Burtey Fen Collection, collection pipe organs – Pinchbeck^[117]
• Scarborough Fair Collection, collection mechanical organs – 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^[118]

Scotland

• 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
• 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

Mobile

• National Guitar Museum
• New Jersey Music Hall of Fame

Alabama

Muscle Shoals

• Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame – Birmingham
• W. C. Handy Home, Museum & Library, dedicated to W. C. Handy – Florence^[119]
• Hank Williams Boyhood Home & Museum, dedicated to Hank Williams – Georgiana^[120]
• The Hank Williams Museum, dedicated to Hank Williams – Montgomery^[121]
• Muscle Shoals Sound Studio Museum – Sheffield
• National Band Association Hall of Fame of Distinguished Band Conductors, Troy University – Troy^[122]
• Alabama Music Hall of Fame – Tuscumbia
• Commodore Museum, dedicated to the Commodores – Tuskegee^[123]

Arizona

• Musical Instrument Museum – Phoenix

Arkansas

• Delta Cultural Center – Helena
• Guitar Museum – Jacksonville^[124]
• Ozark Folk Center – Mountain View

California

Crystal Palace

• Buck Owens Crystal Palace, dedicated to Buck Owens – Bakersfield
• Museum of Making Music – Carlsbad
• Grammy Museum at L.A. Live – Los Angeles
• Songwriters Hall of Fame – Los Angeles
• Sacramento Rock and Radio Museum – Sacramento^[125]
• Nethercutt Collection – Sylmar, San Fernando Valley
• Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven – San Jose

Colorado

• Colorado Music Hall of Fame – Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Morrison

Connecticut

• Museum of Fife & Drum – Ivoryton^[126]
• Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments – New Haven

Florida

• Latin Music Hall of Fame Museum – Miami^[127]
• Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame, Universal Studios' City Jazz – Orlando
• Florida Artists Hall of Fame, Florida State Capitol – Tallahassee
• Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park, dedicated to Stephen Foster – White Springs

Georgia

Allman Brothers Museum

• Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame [nl] – Atlanta
• Trap Music Museum, dedicated to rapper T.I. – Atlanta^[128]
• Georgia Music Hall of Fame – Macon
• The Allman Brothers Band Museum, dedicated to The Allman Brothers Band – Macon
• The Little Richard House and Museum, dedicated to Little Richard – Macon^[129]

Illinois

• Place de la Musique – Barrington Hills
• Rock N Roll McDonald's (1983–2018, as restaurant museum) – Chicago^[130]
• Illinois Rock & Roll Museum on Rt. 66 – Joliet^[131]
• David Adler Music and Arts Center – Libertyville
• Sousa Archives and Center for American Music – Urbana

Indiana

• Dr. Ted's Musical Marvels, named after Ted Waflart – Huntingburg^[132]
• Great American Songbook Foundation – Carmel
• Rhythm! Discovery Center – Indianapolis^[133]
• Zaharakos Ice Cream Parlor and Museum – Columbus^[134]

Iowa

• America's Old-Time Country Music Hall Of Fame – Anita
• Iowa Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame – Arnolds Park
• Glenn Miller Birthplace Museum, dedicated to Glenn Miller – Clarinda^[135]
• River Music Experience – Davenport
• Music Man Square, dedicated to Meredith Willson and his musical The Music Man – Mason City^[136]
• Bily Clocks Museum, partly dedicated to Antonín Dvořák – Spillville
• Surf Ballroom & Museum – Clear Lake^[137]

Kentucky

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

Louisiana

Delta Music Museum

• Louisiana Music Hall of Fame – Baton Rouge
• Cajun Music Hall of Fame, dedicated to Cajun music – Eunice^[138]
• Delta Music Museum – 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

Maryland

• Bagpipe Museum – Ellicott City
• Strathmore – North Bethesda

Massachusetts

• Frederick Historical Piano Collection – Ashburnham^[139]
• Museum of Fine Arts Boston, musical instruments collection – Boston^[140]

Michigan

Motown Museum

• Music House Museum – Acme
• Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments – Ann Arbor
• Motown Museum – Detroit
• Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame – Detroit
• International Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Museum – Detroit^[141]
• Carnegie Center, Port Huron Museum, musical collection – Port Huron^[142]
• Tuba Museum, dedicated to the tuba – Okemos^[143]

Minnesota

• Minnesota Music Hall of Fame – New Ulm
• Paisley Park Studios, dedicated to Prince – Chanhassen
• Schubert Club, named after Franz Schubert – Saint Paul

Mississippi

• Mississippi John Hurt Museum, dedicated to Mississippi John Hurt – Carrollton^[144]
• Delta Blues Museum – Clarksdale
• Rock & Blues Museum – Clarksdale^[145]
• The Grammy Museum Mississippi – Cleveland
• Greenwood Blues Heritage Museum & Gallery – Greenwood^[146]
• Robert Johnson Blues Museum, dedicated to Robert Johnson – Crystal Springs^[147]
• Mississippi Music Museum – Hazlehurst^[148]
• Graceland Too (1990–2014) – Holly Springs
• B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, dedicated to B.B. King – Indianola
• Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame – Jackson
• Highway 61 Blues Museum – Leland^[149]
• Hartley Peavey Visitor Center, dedicated to Peavey – Meridian^[150]
• Highland Park, dedicated to Jimmie Rodgers – Meridian
• Charles H. Templeton, Sr. Music Museum, musical collection – Starkville^[151]
• Gateway to the Blues Visitors Center and Museum – Tunica^[152]
• Elvis Presley Birthplace, dedicated to Elvis Presley – Tupelo
• Howlin' Wolf Museum, dedicated to Howlin' Wolf – West Point^[153]

Missouri

• Country Gospel Music Hall of Fame [nl] – Branson
• American Jazz Museum – Kansas City
• National Blues Museum – St. Louis
• Scott Joplin House State Historic Site, dedicated to Scott Joplin – St. Louis
• Steel Guitar Hall of Fame – St. Louis

Nebraska

• Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame – Omaha

Nevada

• Liberace Museum Collection – Paradise
• Elvis-A-Rama Museum (1999–2006) – dedicated to Elvis Presley, Paradise
• The King's Ransom Museum, dedicated to Elvis Presley – Las Vegas^[154]

New Jersey

• Morris Museum – Morristown
• Grammy Museum Experience – Newark

New York

Louis Armstrong House

New York City and Long Island

• Universal Hip Hop Museum – The Bronx^[155]
• Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame and Museum – Brooklyn
• National Jazz Museum – Harlem
• Hip Hop Hall of Fame – Harlem
• Long Island Music Hall of Fame – Melville, 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, dedicated to John Lennon – Central Park, Manhattan
• Louis Armstrong House Museum, dedicated to Louis Armstrong – Queens

Other museums

• Bethel Woods Center for the Arts – Bethel (Woodstock site)
• Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum, dedicated to Marcella Sembrich – Bolton Landing, Warren County
• New York State Country Music Hall of Fame – Cortland^[156]
• Original American Kazoo Factory and Museum, dedicated the kazoo – Eden^[157]
• Fiddler's Hall of Fame and Museum, dedicated to fiddlers – Redfield^[158]
• Empire State Theater Musical Instrument Museum – Syracuse^[159]

North Carolina

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

North Dakota

• Ray Opera House Museum – Ray^[160]

Ohio

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

• Ted Lewis Museum, dedicated to Ted Lewis – Circleville^[161]
• 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

Oklahoma

• Roger Miller Museum, dedicated to Roger Miller – Erick
• Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame – Muskogee
• American Banjo Museum – Oklahoma City^[162]
• Washington Irving Trail Museum, country music collection, named after Washington Irving – Ripley^[163]
• Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame – Tulsa
• Woody Guthrie Center, dedicated to Woody Guthrie and includes the archives of Phil Ochs – Tulsa

Oregon

• Schuman Instrument Collection – Southern Oregon University, Ashland

Part of the Schuman Instrument Collection of the Southern Oregon University

Pennsylvania

Bayernhof Music Museum

• Liberty Bell Museum – Allentown
• DeBence Antique Music World – Franklin
• Wolf Museum of Music and Art – Lancaster County^[164]
• American Treasure Tour – Oaks, Montgomery County
• Martin Guitar Museum, named after C. F. Martin & Company – Nazareth
• New Holland Band Museum – New Holland^[165]
• Bayernhof Music Museum – 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
• Vocal Group Hall of Fame – Sharon

South Carolina

• The Kazoo Museum, dedicated to the kazoo – Beaufort
• Carolina Music Museum – Heritage Green^[166]
• Sigal Music Museum formerly the Carolina Music Museum – Heritage Green^[166]

South Dakota

• National Music Museum – Vermillion

Tennessee

Graceland

• West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center, musical museum and dedication to Tina Turner – Brownsville^[167]
• Rockabilly Hall of Fame – 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^[168]
• International Rock-a-billy Hall of Fame – Jackson^[169]
• Mountain Music Museum – Kingsport
• James D. Vaughan Museum, dedicated to James David Vaughan – Lawrenceburg^[170]
• Graceland, dedicated to Elvis Presley – 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^[171]
• Stax Museum of American Soul Music – Memphis
• Johnny Cash Museum, dedicated to Johnny Cash – Nashville
• Patsy Cline Museum, dedicated to Patsy Cline – Nashville
• Willie Nelson and Friends Museum, dedicated to Willie Nelson – Nashville^[172]
• 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
• Elvis & Hollywood Legends Museum [nl], dedicated to Elvis Presley and others – Pigeon Forge

Texas

• Tejano Roots Museum, dedicated to Tejano music – Alice^[173]
• South Austin Museum of Popular Culture – Austin
• Texas Music Museum – Austin^[174]
• Texas Polka Music Museum – Austin^[175]
• Heart of Texas Country Music Museum – Brady^[176]
• Texas Country Music Hall of Fame – Carthage
• Western Music Association Hall of Fame – Coppell
• The Selena Museum, dedicated to Selena Quintanilla – Corpus Christi
• Lefty Frizzell Museum, dedicated to Lefty Frizzell – Corsicana^[177]
• Texas Musicians Museum – Hillsboro
• Jukebox Museum – Houston^[178]
• Texas Musicians Museum (?-2018) – Irving
• Buddy Holly Center, dedicated to Buddy Holly and Texan music – Lubbock
• Blues & History Museum – Navasota^[179]
• Smitty's Juke Box Museum – Pharr^[180]
• Freddy Fender Museum, named after Freddy Fender – San Benito^[181]
• Texas Conjunto Music Museum – San Benito^[182]
• Sherman Jazz Museum – Sherman^[183]
• Bob Wills Museum, dedicated to Bob Wills – Turkey^[181]
• Roy Orbison Museum, dedicated to Roy Orbison – Wink^[184]

Utah

• Utah Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum – Ogden

Virginia

Birthplace of Country Music

• Birthplace of Country Music Museum – Bristol
• Ralph Stanley Museum, dedicated to Ralph Stanley – Clintwood
• Blue Ridge Institute & Museum, musical collection – Ferrum^[185]
• Blue Ridge Music Center – Galax
• Carter Family Fold, dedicated to the Carter Family – Hiltons, Scott County
• Virginia Musical Museum – Williamsburg

Washington

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

West Virginia

• Gorby's Vintage Instrument Museum – South Charleston^[186]
• West Virginia Music Hall of Fame

Washington, D.C.

• O Street Museum Foundation

Uzbekistan

• Memorial house museum of Tamara Khanum – Tashkent