Highlights
Guests look and listen inside exhibits that chronicle the history of jazz, including a 1930s nightclub replica where live musicians play
About This Deal
Choose Between Three Options
- for two adult admissions ($20 value)
- for four adult admissions ($40 value)
- donate to American Jazz Museum
- The American Jazz Museum is poised to achieve our vision to make the Museum and 18th & Vine a premier destination for tourism, entertainment, research, and education. We are creating a better understanding of the role of jazz in our city’s and nation’s history. Your contribution is essential to helping us accomplish our goals.
Fine Print
About American Jazz Museum
Charlie Parker's Grafton saxophone, Louis Armstrong's trumpet, a sequined gown worn by Ella Fitzgerald—at the American Jazz Museum, each of these artifacts represents a mark on a musical timeline. Established in 1997 at 18th and Vine, the museum immerses guests in jazz via several mediums: films, sheet music, album covers, and concert posters, to name a few. Listening stations emit interviews and samples of classic tunes, but to hear entire songs, you can visit Jazz Central, the in-house musical library of more than 100 recordings.
Preserving the jazz stylings of the past is not the museum's only mission, however. At mixing boards, visitors can create their own melodies without bringing their stand-up bass from home.