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Musical Instrument Museum
A Phoenix museum opened in 2010 holding over 15,000 instruments from nearly 200 countries, the largest of its type in the world.
- Rank in Arizona
- #149of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 48.5 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Museum
The Musical Instrument Museum is a museum in Phoenix, Arizona, opened in April 2010 and the largest of its type in the world. Its collection of more than 15,000 musical instruments and associated objects includes examples from nearly 200 countries and territories, representing every inhabited continent. Larger countries such as the United States, Mexico, India, China and Brazil are given multiple displays, subdivided by types of ethnic, folk and tribal music.
Where it is
Musical Instrument Museum is a museum near Phoenix, in Maricopa County. It is one of the museums in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Musical Instrument Museum, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://www.mim.org/(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
More photographs
Scotwriter21 Indonesia: Gamelan degung gallery Musical instruments on display at the MIM (14165210530).jpg Gong Chimes and percussion, Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, Arizona.jpg Musical instruments on display at the MIM (14350225962).jpg Musical instruments on display at the MIM (14165210230).jpg MIM SW10.jpg Gamelan degung, Musical Instruments Museum, Phoenix, Arizona.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0 · licence(opens in a new tab) · source(opens in a new tab) 
Tashaila Nichole Meyers & User:Argon233, CC BY-SA 3.0 · licence(opens in a new tab) · source(opens in a new tab)
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Museum
- Destination
- Phoenix
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 48.5 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 40.7
- Significance score
- 55.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- mim.org(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 33.6676, -111.9785
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12