🗺️ West
🏙️ Hounslow
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What it is
Museum tags: Music and performance; Niche history; Inventions; Weird and wonderful
A unique museum of self-playing musical instrument, telling the story of how music has been recorded and reproduced throughout history. Engineering marvels and inventions, such as self-playing violin and The Mighty Wurlitzer, designed to accompany silent films. There are lots of opportunities to listen to the instruments. Also home to a gallery dedicated to music synthesisers and how they’ve influenced music, in the Korg Gallery, a Japanese electronic musical instrument company.
Curated by Jamie George, creator of What’s Down That Street.
Jamie has personally visited 65+ London museums so far and regularly updates this guide with practical, first-hand information.
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