Bringing Our Mission to Life

The storyline within the Museum galleries is organized into three pillars: “Making the Instruments,” “Providing the Instruments,” and “Using the Instruments.” Our displays reveal the inner workings of these themes, and our programming brings them to life as well. For example, in a recent Community Music Day, we invited families and members of the community to explore the world of instruments through diverse activities such as an instrument petting zoo, a lecture on the art of guitar building, a Family Jam, and an instrument art project for kids.

To drive home the importance and hard-to-put-into-words magic of the third pillar, “Using the Instruments,” we host a variety of live performances. Following the long hiatus during the pandemic, our offerings are slowly coming back and reaching a balance of approximately one concert per month. Thanks to funding from the Conrad Prebys Foundation, and a new booking partnership with Belly Up Entertainment, over the past few months we have presented artists such as Kanekoa, Karl Denson, Brockett Parsons, and Jaime Wyatt.

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