Otaru Music Box Museum

Otaru Music Box Museum
小樽オルゴール堂
Otaru Music Box Museum is located in Japan
Otaru Music Box Museum
Location within Japan
Established1967 (1967)
LocationOtaru
Coordinates43°11′26.167″N 141°0′27.973″E / 43.19060194°N 141.00777028°E / 43.19060194; 141.00777028
Typemusic instruments museum
Websitewww.otaru-orgel.co.jp/english/e_index.html

Otaru Music Box Museum (小樽オルゴール堂) is a music museum in the Otaru Orgel-do II building in Otaru, Japan. It includes various examples of music boxes as well as CDs that have music box-esque versions of various songs. Chris Bamforth of The Japan Times wrote that it had an "absolutely phenomenal" variety of music.[1]

Interior of the museum showing the shop.

The main building of the museum was constructed in 1902.[2] The antique music boxes are in Hall 2.[3]

There are about 25,000 music boxes in the collection.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Bamforth, Chris (2005-08-19). "Tourists are now the big catch for reborn Otaru". Japan Times. Retrieved 2018-11-03.,
  2. ^ "Main Building of the Otaru Music Box Museum." Orgel Doh Group. Retrieved on November 3, 2018.
  3. ^ "Antique sounds fill the city on[sic] Otaru." Otaru Music Box Museum. Retrieved on November 3, 2018.
  4. ^ Lonely Planet Japan. August 1, 2015. ISBN 1743609612, 9781743609613. Google Books PT1389.


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