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 speciments 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.
The Museum was founded in 1963 by Frank Holland MBE (1910-1989) 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 2000’s.
