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Currently on Display
Permanent Collections:
Keyboard Collection
Kugler Collection of Musical Instruments
Gilman Ordway Manuscript Collection
Location
Lower level and Second Floor of Landmark Center
75 W 5th Street
Saint Paul, MN 55102
Driving directions and parking information
There are also manuscript display cases at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts and the Saint Paul Public Library.
Cost
No admission charge
Hours
Monday through Friday: 11:00 AM - 3:00 pm
Sunday: 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Holidays
Because Landmark Center is closed on certain days, the Museum is never open on: New Year's Day, Easter Sunday, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Day. The Museum will also be closed on Sunday, December 24, 2006.
Tours
A museum docent is on staff to provide tours. Groups of 5 or more are encouraged to call ahead. After-hours tours may be possible by special arrangement. Please call 651-292-3267. | |
Schubert Club Museum of Musical Instruments |
Currently on Display
Lower Level Galleries, Landmark Center
The main gallery has about a dozen keyboard instruments, ranging from a 1768 square piano to an art deco grand. The back gallery has some letters from the Gilman Ordway Manuscript Collection, two large Swiss music boxes, and an Indonesian gamelan (an iron orchestra from Java with hanging gongs, various pot gongs, and metal-bar instruments). Hall display cases include more music boxes and a Schwarzer zither.
Second Floor Galleries, Landmark Center
The Hand of the Master: Letters from Ten Great Composers
The
Spiering Papers: A German-American Life in Music
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
Exhibits showcasing letters and works of composers Dominick Argento, Aaron Kernis, Frederick Delius, and Sir Edward Elgar.
Saint Paul Public Library
Two display windows on the 3rd floor: one about Bartok and his folk recordings, and the other commemorating Mozart's 250th birthday.
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