Grainger Museum
The Grainger Museum honours Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882 -1961), a prolific composer and a virtuoso pianist with an international reputation. Australian-born, he is remembered as his country's greatest composer; in England he is considered an important figure in the preservation and arrangement of English folk song, and in the United States, where he lived most of his life.His extraordinarily full life also included pioneering work as a folk music collector and arranger, educator, social and musical commentator, clothing designer and Free Music inventor. He was a skilled linguist and became known, in addition to his musical accomplishments, for his forthright opinions on many subjects.
Percy Grainger preserved the evidence of his creative life - his archive, personal library and many of his possessions - in his Museum or 'Past-hoard-house' on the campus of the University of Melbourne, the city of his birth.
Location: The University of Melbourne, Gate 13, Royal Parade, Parkville. Ph: (03) 8344 5270
Public transport: catch the no. 19 tram along Elizabeth Street/Royal Parade and alight at stop 11.
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday and Sunday from 1pm to 4:30pm
Mondays during semester from 12 noon to 3:30pm, when there is a performance in Melba Hall.
Closed Saturday, public holidays and December through January, where possible group bookings will be accommodated.
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