An article in the New York Times reports that in 2010, Phoenix will have a new museum devoted to world music instruments.
Robert J. Ulrich, the chairman and chief executive of Target Corporation, is donating millions of dollars to establish the Musical Instrument Museum, which he says will be the country’s only free-standing museum devoted to instruments of world cultures. The total cost is estimated at $125 million.
It will focus on indigenous and popular instruments from nearly every country in the world. The two-story museum will have 180,000 square feet, with 75,000 square feet of exhibition space. It will include an auditorium, a conservation laboratory open for viewing, a recording studio and galleries where visitors can see and hear instruments being played on video.
Musicians will occasionally perform, and museumgoers will even have an opportunity to try some of the instruments.
The funding behind this new museum breaks with the usual trend of altruistic donations given to building a fancy new orchestra hall, financing an opera season or helping to support the ballet.
Mr. Ulrich said the museum would be based in Phoenix because of the city’s rapid growth, the large number of tourists it receives and its proximity to draws like Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon.
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