NMM Membership

NMM MembershipReward yourself with the knowledge that you play a key role in realizing the mission of the National Music Museum, one of the great institutions of its kind in the world. See details about NMM Membership Benefits (such as a 10% gift shop discount). To inquire about other ways to contribute, just email nmm@usd. edu.

explores instruments from Native traditions

Keyboard innovation has continuously expanded throughout the world

represented by the impermanence of wood

Harpsichord by Joseph Kirckman

Note:  This violin survives in unaltered condition

Drawings and photography for the NMM by Jonathan Santa Maria Bouquet

may be copied

Antonio Stradivari Workshop

Sabine Katharina Klaus

“Gamelan: A Way of Life” will showcase the NMM’s Javanese gamelan with family friendly text and activities and display – for the first time - eight newly acquired and spectacularly decorated flat leather shadow puppets that illustrate some of the main characters of the epic Ramayana

Unstructured with adjustable snapback closure

and the history of the United States and its military