Grainger Museum

The Grainger Museum is a repository of materials chronicling the composer, folklorist, educator, and pianist Percy Grainger's life, career, and music. It is located on the campus of the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Grainger began planning an autobiographical museum in the early 1920s, with the goal of depositing "all really intimate letters or notes in an Australian Grainger Museum, ideally in birth-town Melbourne". Grainger was a linguist who favored the use of a 'Blue-Eyed English' lexicon formed from Anglo-Saxon and Germanic sources. As a result, he normally refers to museums as "past-hoard-houses", but he consented to use the term "museum" in this situation.

Grainger's whips and other items relating to his sadomasochism (which he called the "Lust Branch"), the contents of his bedside cabinet, and a gallery devoted to his mother's suicide are among the displays of original manuscripts and published scores, musical instruments, field recordings, artworks, photographs, books, and personal items. Grainger also employed sound-making instruments to create his unique and experimental "Free music". Grainger communicated with people including Edvard Grieg, Frederick Delius, Cyril Scott, Roger Quilter, and Julius Röntgen, and gathered letters from Wagner and Tchaikovsky, among others, and the archive collection has over 50,000 items of correspondence.

Location: 7-13 Royal Pde, Melbourne, VIC 3052

Website: grainger.unimelb.edu.au