5 Incredible Synthesizer Museums: Where to See the Rarest Synths in the World

Find out where you can see – and even play! – the world’s rarest synths at these amazing synthesizer museums.

YouTube demo videos can only take you so far. While an amazing service, no video is going to compare to seeing and playing classic and rare synthesizers for yourself. The problem is where to do it. Unless you’re fabulously wealthy with a fleet of rare synth gems hidden away in a home studio, you’re going to have a hard time getting your hands on instruments like the Roland Jupiter-8, Yamaha CS-80, or EMS VCS3. That’s where synthesizer museums come in.

Much like regular museums, synthesizer museums assemble rare and coveted synths, drum machines, and other gear under one roof, often with educational material to supplement the instruments themselves. While not every museum will let you get hands-on with the synthesizers, many do – or at least in some capacity. But seeing and not playing is better than never seeing at all, so even if your closest museum won’t let you play, don’t let that stop you from paying it a visit.

Here then are five synthesizer museums, all with some pretty rare instruments in their collections. Did someone say roadtrip? ...

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