Musical Instrument Museum (Phoenix)

• The Artist Gallery - Instruments, video concert footage, photographs, performance outfits, and other special items linked to notable musicians and music innovators. The gallery currently includes exhibits for musical artists such as Elvis Presley, Pablo Casals, John Lennon, King Sunny Adé, Taylor Swift, and many others from around the world.
• The Experience Gallery - MIM’s Experience Gallery invites guests of all ages to touch, play, and hear a changing array of instruments from many different cultures. Guests can try their hands at new instruments.
• The Mechanical Music Gallery - MIM’s Mechanical Music Gallery features a selection of musical instruments such as player pianos, mechanical zithers, and cylinder music boxes that, by definition, “play themselves.”
• The Target Gallery - The Target Gallery complements the museum’s permanent collection with traveling shows, special engagements, and changing exhibitions.
• The Conservation Lab - Seen through a large viewing window, MIM’s Conservation Lab gives guests a behind-the-scenes glimpse at collection maintenance and preservation.
• Café Allegro - Open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Café Allegro serves a daily-changing menu of foods. Stations feature global cuisine, local and regional dishes, grilled specialties, freshly made soups and salads, and desserts.
• Museum Store - The Museum Store is open daily to the public during museum hours and offers gift cards, a selection of books and CDs, instruments, handmade gifts and other musical things.
• MIM Music Theater - This concert hall offers an array of concerts by artists from every corner of the globe.

MIM’s collection is presented in Geographical Galleries that focus on five major world regions. Here it contains ethnic, tribal, and folk musical instruments or musical instruments from various parts of the world, These are:

• The Africa and Middle East gallery, which displays instruments and artifacts from sub-Saharan, North African, and Middle Eastern nations.
• The Asia and Oceania gallery, which features instruments from countries and island groups in five sub-galleries devoted to regions of East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Central Asia and the Caucasus.
• The Europe gallery, where guests encounter instruments ranging from an antique charter horn and a foot-operated drum kit to a child’s vessel flute.
• The Latin America gallery, which features instruments and ensembles displayed in three sub-galleries: South America; Central America and Mexico; and the Caribbean.
• The United States/Canada gallery, where guests can observe an array of instruments that shaped the North American musical landscape, including the Appalachian dulcimer, sousaphone, ukulele, and electric guitar. Special exhibits focus on American musical-instrument manufacturers, including Fender, Martin, and Steinway.