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The Musical Museum

Museum · Brentford, England

The Musical Museum is at 399 High Street, Brentford, TW8 0DU, and opens Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 4pm, with guided tours at 10.30am, 12.30pm and 2.30pm. Adult admission is £15.00, concession £12.00, child £5.00 and Hounslow resident £12.00, and the tour takes just over an hour. The building carries no entry on the National Heritage List for England.

History

Frank Holland MBE founded the museum in 1963, and volunteers run almost all of it. The collection holds self-playing pianos and violins, pipe organs, music boxes, gramophones, synthesizers and a Mighty Wurlitzer cinema organ, together with over 20,000 paper music rolls; a dedicated Korg Gallery covers the history of music synthesis and Korg electronic instruments. The concert hall seats 250. Brentford station, on South Western Railway, is 661 m from the High Street and Kew Bridge station 1,201 m. The operator directs visitors from Gunnersbury on the District line with the 237 or 267 bus, or from South Ealing on the Piccadilly line with the 65.

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The Musical Museum, 399 High Street, Brentford, London TW8 0DU

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