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USA, Middle West & South West: Liste der Öffentlich zugänglichen Museen, Austellungsorte u. Privatsammlungen

Always call before travelling ! - Téléphonez toujours avant de vous déplacer ! - Bitte immer vorher Ihre Reise anrufen !

MIDDLE WEST and SOUTH WEST

ARKANSAS

Miles Musical Museum

Grosse collection/Large Museum/Grosse Sammlung.

250 musical items ; band, dance, reed and monkey organs, music boxes, nickelodeons, calliopes, phonographs, stringed instruments, hurdy gurdy.

Also musical chapel, animated mechanical circus, Christmas animations, animated farm & Mother Goose nursery rhymes, clocks, paintings carvings, old arcade machines, button mosaic pictures and many other items.

IOWA

Billy Clock Exhibit

Between 15 and 20 clocks with music boxes and moving figures

Plymouth Co. Historical Museum

One large musical box using a 25 ’ disc, circa late 1800s

KANSAS

Carnival Heritage Museum

An old "Tilt-a-Whirl", and a small working carousel

In the same city, White’s carousel manufactures carousel horses

Dickinson County Heritage Center

Collection includes :

1902 C.W. Parker carousel and its Wurlitzer band organ

1890 Kimball organ

1860’s three-octave Mason & Hamlin organ

Concert Roller Organ

ca. 1885 German-made accordion

1895 Busy Bee graphophone, type O and wax cylinder recordings

Yankee Prince phonograph

Merrifield upright piano

Victrola

Also, the Museum of Independent Telephony, with a large collection of antique telephones, switchboards, and telephone equipment

Kansas Museum of History

Several music boxes and a Reginaphone (not always on display)

Riley County Historical Museum

Collection includes :

Olympia music box (Reginaphone ?)

1850’s Melodeon by George A. Prince & Co., Buffalo, New York

65-note piano by Carhart, Needham & Co., New York

MINNESOTA

The Schubert Club Museum of Musical Instruments

Free exhibits drawn from keyboard instrument collection, manuscript collection & Kugler collection.

Latter includes various automatic musical instrument cylinder & disc music boxes, organettes, player pianos, orchestrions and a Mills Violano.

MISSOURI

Faust Park Carousel

1921 Denzel 4 row 65 horse carousel (fully restored), 1899 Herchell Spillman organ (display only), 1989 Stinson Organ

NORTH DAKOTA

State Historical Society and Heritage Center

Werner player piano with music roll, Tanzbar player accordion,

Chautauqua roller organ, Concert roller organ with music rolls, (2 organs), player organ, Gem roller organ with wooden cobs, Baldwin player piano with 44 rolls.

SOUTH DAKOTA

Old West Museum

Seeburg pianos, Western Electric Derby, Coinola, Cremona, Mills Violano Wurlitzer, Regina changer model 34

Pioneer Auto Museum and Antique Town

Three Reginas, 2 Mills Violanos, Wurlitzer band organ, Western Electric piano, 3 Seeburg pianos,Tangley Calliope, 5 Juke boxes, Several roller organs

TEXAS

Beaumont Heritage Society

Wind-up music boxes

Harris County Heritage Society

Small collection of antique phonographs. Around Christmas is the best time to ’catch’ one of the instruments being shown.

Olden Year Musical Museum

Music boxes, phonographs, hurdy gurdies, organs, organettes, early radios and TVs, automata, and other automated musical machines

The Jefferson Theatre

3/7 Robert Morton Theatre organ in its original installation - they still use the organ before shows and sometimes even show the ’silents’

Parkdale Printing Co.

Hand cranked ’monkey grinder’ organ which is sometimes demonstrated at the historical homes park

The Strand Emporium

The store is a delicatessen/sweet shop with the collection in the rear with the seating area.

Collection includes a Wurlitzer military band organ, two nickelodeons, and a couple of other arcade style amuzements