The Musical Museum

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Museum of automated and mechanical musical Instruments with live demonstrations and guided tours.

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The Musical Museum contains one of the world's foremost collections of automatic instruments. From the tiny clockwork Musical Box to the self playing "Mighty Wurlitzer", the collection embraces an impressive and comprehensive array of sophisticated reproducing pianos, orchestrions, orchestrelles, residence organs and violin players.

Address: 399 High St, Brentford TW8 0DU, UK

Phone: 020 8560 8108

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State: Greater London

City: Brentford

Zip Code: TW8 0DU

opening times

Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: Closed
Friday: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

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Reviews

I've been to two events in the last couple of months - a movie and a Wurlitzer concert, both very enjoyable.  As well as housing valuable and quirky instruments, this museum provides an invaluable service to the community, especially elderly people, by hosting tea dances, golden oldie movies and Wurlitzer concerts.  The staff are very welcoming and mainly volunteers.  The caff is good value too.  Long may it continue!

 7 years ago (25-02-2018)

A wonderful place, exceeding the uniqueness of the only other museum I know of, the Morris Museum in New Jersey, that has a similar collection.  We were particularly intrigued by the so-called phantom piano which uses an early “recording” technique giving access to those of us in this century the technical and artistic accomplishments of late 19th century pianists.  And the docent/guide was great.  All in all, a must see for visitors to London, despite its somewhat out of the way location.  However, a trip to here can be combined with the Steam and Water Museum, just down the street.

 7 years ago (11-03-2018)

They have the so many different musical instruments from old days and they show you how the instruments works.

 7 years ago (08-03-2018)

Really fun place with a lot of history. The guide brought everything to life and 1½ hours flew by.

We had our AGM in the room with the wurlitzer. Delicious food, fab service and a lovely day.

Apparently they screen movies and hold tea dances here too.

 7 years ago (20-01-2018)

Asked on the day by tour guides to give positive reviews. Yet we were being rushed around the tour because they had another function that night.

A bit sad about this - I understand they couldn’t be late for another function but we had booked a party of us for my father’s 70th birthday on a Saturday night and many people had come from around the country to be with us that evening, and the musical museum was a big part of that.

Excellent tour guide, very interesting artefacts, however it was cut short by an old bloke who came in and tapped his watch at the tour guide.

Said in front of everyone “we’ve got to wrap it up now”. We had barely been going for long and had seen approximately 30% of all the instruments which I was sad about as you can’t just wander around the museum without the guide - not that kind of place.

So being rushed really ruined it for me.

However I only have very positive things to say about our youngish tour guide who handled this embarrassing interruption with incredible diplomacy. This chap was knowledgeable, charming, and interesting, and I just wanted to hear more from him. So sad it was cut short and that we couldn’t see instruments in more detail.

We literally looked at two of the approx 50 instruments in the last room. Gutting.

I think the reason was that we were due to have a Wurlitzer tour at the end, which was fantastic, but we kept on being reminded that the chap doing the Wurlitzer bit couldn’t be with us for long as he had rehearsals for something else that night.

Also I tried to sit in a seat near the back of the hall and was told I couldn’t sit there because they were rearranging the room for a function that night, this all happened around us whilst we sat in the final part of our tour. Can’t believe this as my dad had booked our time for his 70th birthday!

I only wanted to sit at the back because of an annoying screaming toddler (not in our party) ruining it for me.

Finally, my father had booked, and checked multiple times throughout the preceding weeks, for me to play some tunes on the Wurlitzer but the guy doing the last part of the tour simply didn’t make this an option.

I understand most of the people in our party were late, which is why I understand they missed much of the instruments in the first room, that’s their fault. But I was personally sad that I didn’t get a chance to see way over half of the beautiful instruments in this museum, especially the second room.

I recall they said our tickets gave us entry again at a later date if we wanted to come back, so hopefully I’ll find the time to do this and update my review accordingly.

 8 years ago (26-11-2017)

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