The GRAMMY Museum – Virtual Tour

The GRAMMY Museum is devoted to the history and winners of the Grammy Awards. The Museum has a collection of historical music artifacts including costumes and instruments from the Grammy Awards, hand-written lyrics, records, and recordings.

The GRAMMY Museum, located in downtown Los Angeles’s L.A. Live, opened in 2008 in recognition of the Grammy Awards’ 50th anniversary.

The Museum’s collection includes music artifacts displays, interactive instrument stations, recording booths, and a Theater.

In addition to Los Angeles, there is also The Grammy Museum Mississippi in Mississippi, and a Grammy Museum at the Musicians Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee. The Grammy Museum Experience is located in Newark, New Jersey.

The GRAMMY Museum explores:

• The Creative Music Process
• The Art and Technology of the Recording Process
• The History of the GRAMMY Awards

Buddy Holly’s Gibson J-45 with leather cover – a traveling exhibit curated by the GRAMMY Museum®

Highlights of The GRAMMY Museum

• Record of the Year exhibits
• The Crossroads Exhibit – features the music of all genres
• Sound-proof recording booths featuring the different stages of producing commercial soundtracks
• Best New Artist exhibit
• Facilities to record your track and remix it to create a cover of various pop songs
• Clothes that were worn by Grammy-Award-winning musicians such as Jennifer Lopez, and Rihanna
• Album of the Year exhibit
• Bronze disks for each year’s GRAMMY Awards honoring the top winners
• Song of the Year exhibit

“Ladies and Gentlemen… the Beatles!” – a traveling exhibit curated by the GRAMMY Museum®

The GRAMMY Museum

• Name:               The GRAMMY Museum
• City:                   Los Angeles
• Country:            United States
• Established:       2008
• Type:                 Cultural Museum
• Category:          Specialist Museum
• Location:           800 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, California

The GRAMMY Museum – Map

The GRAMMY Museum – 360 View

The GRAMMY Museum – 360 View

The GRAMMY Museum – 360 View

The GRAMMY Museum

• New York Museums

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art or MET
  • Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
  • Intrepid, Sea, Air & Space Museum
  • Neue Galerie New York
  • The Cloisters
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  • American Museum of Natural History
  • Museum of the City of New York
  • New-York Historical Society
  • Frick Collection
  • Met Breuer
  • Rubin Museum of Art
  • Brooklyn Museum

The GRAMMY Museum

• Washington, D.C. Museums

  • National Gallery of Art
  • National Museum of American History
  • National Air and Space Museum
  • National Museum of African American History and Culture
  • National Museum of Natural History
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • The Phillips Collection
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  • International Spy Museum

The GRAMMY Museum

• Boston Museum

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
  • Harvard Art Museums
  • Freedom Trail
  • John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
  • USS Constitution
  • Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard

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• Los Angeles Museums

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
  • Getty Museum
  • California Science Center
  • Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • The Broad
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • Petersen Automotive Museum
  • Griffith Observatory
  • Autry Museum of the American West
  • Japanese American National Museum
  • The GRAMMY Museum

The GRAMMY Museum

The GRAMMY Museum

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“Well, 20 Grammys is not bad.” 
– Aretha Franklin

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