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National Music Museum, Vermillion, SD

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National Music Museum

Walk through galleries of rare musical instruments, from Stradivari strings to early pianos, on the University of South Dakota campus.

414 E Clark St · Vermillion, SD

About National Music Museum

The National Music Museum, founded in 1973 on the University of South Dakota campus, fills the 1910 Carnegie Library and the newer Lillibridge Wing with 12 reimagined exhibition galleries. You can see one of two known Stradivari mandolins, a Stradivari guitar, and one of only two surviving 18th-century grand pianos with a Cristofori-type action. The museum is a Smithsonian Affiliate and hosts concerts.

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