Traveling Museum
A World of Accordions Museum seeks to serve the general public by providing insight into the musical artistry, physical beauty, complexity, and cultural significance of accordion-family-instruments and artifacts as displayed in a noble setting. Through our outreach programs, we can bring our educational, cultural and performing arts presentations to your area.
The variety of instruments' shapes and colors is a feast for the eyes; the variety in musical styles is unique and memorable. The ability to play all these different keying and pitch-organization systems by our presenters is itself a mind-boggling, unforgettable visual and acoustic experience. Audiences are amazed to learn about accordion evolution in combination with ethnic, cultural and immigration histories through enjoyable, informative programs. The instruments are sounded in demonstrations that are ethnically correct and refine in musicianship. Poignant anecdotes and humorous moments intermingle in varying programs, each of which is a winner!
A diverse array of accordions are selected from the magnificent collection of 2,500 plus instruments displayed in Superior, WI. These are regularly used in traveling exhibitions along with documents and artifacts. They are an experience for eyes and ears - beautiful in the ornate artistry of their bodies, alive in their acoustic and repertory breadth when sounded.
Antique, rare, hybrid, and modern state-of-the-art instruments are selected from world-wide origins and their keyboard systems and pitch organizations are explained and tunings and quality rankings are defined. In the process of these demonstrations, general audiences ranging from children to adults as well as non accordionists to industry professionals find themselves stimulated with new-found respect for the worldwide cultural importance of the accordion family.
Some popular Traveling Museum presentations include, but are not limited to:
Traveling Museum
approx. 20 instruments showing and sounding chronological evolution of accordion family instruments. The instruments are presented in an interesting and entertaining fashion, most of them performed to showcase the evolution of the accordion over its 200 year history.
1 or 1.5 hour presentation
Children's introduction to the Accordion
This introduction to the accordion allows the inquisitive minds of the attendees to feast on the fascinating inside of the accordion as well as learning how the instrument works.; Let them enjoy some hands on in the 'accordion petting zoo' as part of this captivating presentation; This show, also available in house, is an ideal Summer Camp day outing for Wisconsin and Minnesota area schools, with the presentation being followed by a guided tour of the Museum. 50 minutes show
Contact our team to discuss customizing a program to suit your event. We are available to hand craft a presentation for you based on your time frame, location, needs and or focus.