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Museum of Making Music

Museum of Making Music is a museum in Carlsbad, CA, part of the San Diego guide. Cost: under $25.

5790 Armada Dr · Carlsbad, CA

Why you should go…

The Museum of Making Music is a music-history museum in Carlsbad, California, operated by the NAMM Foundation and opened to the public in March 2000. Its galleries recreate vintage music-store settings and trace the connections among people, instruments and the music they make from 1900 to today. Visitors can pick up and play a variety of instruments throughout the hands-on exhibits.

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