Musical Museum, Brentford

A sample of The Musical Museum's instrument collection

The Musical Museum is a musical instrument museum located in Brentford, London Borough of Hounslow, a few minutes' walk from Kew Bridge railway station.

The Musical Museum contains one of the world's foremost collections of self-playing musical instruments. The museum contains rare working specimens of various player pianos, orchestrions, orchestrelles, residence organs and violin players. The Musical Museum also serves as a concert hall and a cinema. The Museum contains a fully restored Mighty Wurlitzer attached to a roll playing mechanism and a Steinway grand piano. The instruments are arranged over three storeys, and houses a concert hall which doubles as a cinema that seats up to 230 people.

History

The Museum was founded in 1963 by Frank Holland MBE (1910-89) as The British Piano Museum, who believed that self-playing musical instruments should be preserved and played. Host to a Mighty Wurlitzer concert organ and various musical boxes, the museum today is home to the world's largest collection of historic musical rolls. It was originally housed in a former church dedicated to Saint George and moved to a newer building nearby in the 2000s.^[1]

The museum mostly run by volunteers, it is open on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and on Bank Holidays, a tour guide demonstrates the instruments at 1130,1330 and 1530.

The Mighty Wurlitzer Organ

See also

• Wurlitzers in the United Kingdom

References

London Borough of Hounslow Districts Brentford Brentford End Chiswick Cranford East Bedfont Feltham Grove Park Gunnersbury Hanworth Hatton Heston Hounslow Hounslow West Isleworth Lampton Lower Feltham North Feltham North Hyde Osterley Spring Grove Turnham Green Woodlands Attractions Boston Manor Chiswick House Griffin Park football stadium Gunnersbury Park and Museum Hogarth's House Holland Gardens London Museum of Water & Steam Musical Museum, Brentford Osterley Park and House (NT) Syon House Tabard Theatre Watermans Arts Centre Parks and open spaces Crane Park Duke's Hollow Duke's Meadows Gunnersbury Park Hanworth Park Hounslow Heath Inwood Park Lampton Park Osterley Park Pevensey Road Nature Reserve Turnham Green Constituencies Brentford and Isleworth Feltham and Heston Bridges Barnes Railway Bridge Chiswick Bridge Kew Bridge Kew Railway Bridge Tube and rail stations Boston Manor Brentford railway station Chiswick railway station Feltham railway station Gunnersbury Hounslow railway station Hounslow Central Hounslow East Hounslow West Isleworth railway station Kew Bridge railway station Osterley Stamford Brook Syon Lane railway station Turnham Green Places of worship All Saints Church, Hanworth All Saints Church, Isleworth Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God and the Holy Royal Martyrs Christ Church, Turnham Green Church of the Good Shepherd, Hounslow Holy Trinity Church, Hounslow St Dunstan's Church, Cranford St Dunstan's Church, Feltham St Francis of Assisi, Isleworth St George's Church, Hanworth St John the Baptist's Church, Isleworth St Joseph's Church, Grove Park St Leonard's Church, Heston St Mary's Church, Bedfont St Michael's Church, Chiswick St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park St Nicholas' Church, Chiswick St Paul's Church, Brentford St Paul's Church, Grove Park Other topics Council Grade I and II* listed buildings People Public art Schools

External links

• Museum website

Coordinates: 51°29′16″N 0°17′35″W / 51.4879°N 0.2931°W / 51.4879; -0.2931