Australian Jazz Museum

About

Open Tuesdays and Fridays - 10.00 am - 3.00 pm. The Australian Jazz Museum has an objective of collecting, archiving and disseminating Australian jazz.

Story

The Australian Jazz Museum, located in Melbourne’s south-east at Wantirna, is Australia's leading jazz museum open to the public. With an extensive collection of Australian and overseas jazz resources it pays tribute to the Australian jazz story and charts Australia's significant contribution to the world of jazz both locally and overseas. Through vibrant and exciting displays and temporary exhibitions, the Archive celebrates Australia's extraordinary jazz heritage and its rich jazz culture. Being an accredited museum, the Australian Jazz Museum is widely recognized as the premier home for Australia's rich heritage of jazz. Our collection includes oral histories, recorded music, photographs and film, posters, sheet music and instruments. It also maintains files of manuscripts, clippings, and bibliographic references; vintage and contemporary books and periodicals, discographies and encyclopaedias. While the Australian Jazz Museum is dedicated to the preservation of this material we are very enthusiastic about making it accessible to the public. The Museum is a 'living museum' actively involved in local community activities, festivals and jazz workshops. Our premises are used as the rehearsal venue of the Jazz Improvisation Workshops, and the Knox Jazz Orchestra. We offer a range of outreach activities including individual and group tours of the Museum and we actively encourage service groups and members of the public to visit and use this museum. A tour of the Museum's collection provides an insight into our rich jazz history through an assortment of recordings, photographs, posters, magazines, books, clippings, and all manner of ephemera related to Australian jazz past and present.

Mission

Collect, exhibit, preserve and store on a permanent basis all material and memorabilia of whatever nature pertaining to jazz music, performed and/or composed by Australian musicians, covering the period from the 1920's through to the present day.

Products

Museum Tours; Exhibitions; Australian Jazz CD sales