Music Museum

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You know … Traverse City is a great anytime city to travel to no matter the season there’s incredible beauty, history, shopping, eating, and if that’s not enough for you … well, we found one more reason to come here.

Just east of downtown Traverse City is a destination that’ll literally bring music to your ears. Because that’s what this place is all about.

Here at the Music House Museum you’ll find a super cool collection of restored antique musical instruments, early radios, and righteously retro recordings. In a classically restored 1909 dairy barn and a 1905 granary farmhouse you also discover the history, artistry and engineering of automated music.

To make sure I learn as much as I can about these marvelous musical machines I made an appointment with Becky Gagnon …

Well, after Becky gave me a tour of the entire place, she sat me down at a piano that possed the ghost of Gershwin and I heard a rhapsody that ‘blue’ my mind.

Music truly is the universal language … it connects us all, knows no boundaries … and lucky for us has absolutely no idea what season it is. So, give the voices in your head something to sing to. And speaking of voices in our head …