Being a musician I thought this would be a really cool museum and keep my interest. I've been to many well known museums and while I'm not one to spend the entire day reading every exhibit, I do usually enjoy the museums. I'm sure from other reviews you know how the museum works. It's a self guided tour through different countries and you can hear the instruments from each country. Problem is that many of the countries have either the same or very similar instruments. There's only so many times you can see a sitar or an animal hide drum. After going through about the first 15 countries and hearing many of the same instruments at each being played, I began to lose interest. I stopped going to the individual countries and started to just walk through the sections. But the museum is huge and I wanted to experience it all at least once. So I made my way through the other parts of the world, and again much of the same instruments in the other parts. I think I actually skipped the last section. I headed downstairs to the other section which had \"famous\" instruments on display, things like John Lennon's piano were cool, others such as the Jonas brothers guitar were not. The other section that let you play the instruments was pretty disappointing also. I was expecting to be able to play some exotic instruments such as the ones I had just seen. Not the case. Most of the instruments were percussion based and really cheap replicas. I left feeling fairly disappointed with the experience. I'm a local and only went because it was the new thing in town. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone visiting the state, and would only suggest it if you are truly interested in other cultures, and have a very large attention span.
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