text: Very cool place!! My husband is a music junkie, has been his whole life.  He plays instruments and is in a band, so I thought surprising him on his birthday with a visit here would be a great idea and it was, he LOVED it!!! It was like taking a kid to Disneyland for the first time! As we were walking through the exhibits, I was thinking to myself, how is it that Phoenix has something so amazing!  (now do get all upset, I am born and raised here, a true Phoenician).\n\nEverything is broken up into sections/rooms depending on geographical location.  They give you a headset to wear and as you walk up to the exhibits, there is music that plays to give an example of what you are looking at! Most of them have a television screen that shows clips of how things are made, dancing, concerts or people playing musical instruments from all around the world. Very cool!  We got there later in the day and stayed until closing, unfortunately we were rushed towards the end and wanted to still at least \"see\" everything so we just walked real fast through the last part of it.  The place is huge and you need pretty much the whole day so you can take your time and soak it all in. You can take photos, with no flash.  They have a room that you can actually play some instruments, including a theremin. They also offer events you can bring your children to for hands on participating, even for children under 18 months!! We will be taking our 9 month old back in a couple weeks - will update on that!\n\nThey usually have other exhibits, for example, Women Who Rock, that will be an extra charge to look at, we did not do that since we figured we would run out of time anyways.  It was $18.00 per person just for the main museum, including the headsets.  Not bad.  They have a cafe there that has snacks, lunch, drinks - even beer and wine (closes at 2pm).  We decided to eat there before we walked around, the prices are very high, but the food is all local and was very good!!! My husband and I shared a hamburger (grass fed) and fries since we had dinner plans for later, VERY GOOD!!  The only complaint was that we waited,what seemed to be forever for the burger, but it was well worth it.  \n\nThis is a true gem! If you love music and have not visited, what are you waiting for?! get down there and spend the day, you will enjoy it!  (And from what I hear, they switch out exhibits with other instruments they have in a warehouse from time to time).