Seen this video with Bob Moog opening the museum and giving an interview? Look up the title of this thread on utube (can’t copy the link on my phone). Lots of cool gear.
Hm, yes, can’t look it up at work either. 
If it’s what I’m thinking, there’s a video and a book for this.
It was Martin Newcomb’s museum in the UK.
Bob was the guest speaker and interviewed as he explored the museum.
Peter Forrest used to (and may still) distribute copies.
I have mine. 
Fwiw, ,I serviced.several of the synths there, including most of the Moog modulars.
The museum is long gone. Most, if not all instruments were sold.
Is this the same museum?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nYrjpHvAc&list=FL7UivsLRmiiB-cWGopnVdPA&index=2&feature=plpp_video
I don’t know why places like those get boarded up. We had a band museum in Pine Bluff that was supposedly the only museum of it’s kind. It had rare instruments like sub contrabass clarinets and even a folded soprano sax (that thing was tiny). The guy who owned it was Jerry Horn (really, no pun there) and he passed away a few years ago. The last time I went in there to see him the instruments had been sold, and the concrete roof was in the process of caving in.
At least instruments like these an be in the hands of people who can preserve them for another generation (while playing hopefully).
Eric
I’ve got this link with a better audio/video synchro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SK7ki3WmMo
BTW, I had seen an extract of this video where Paul Wiffen is talking about the Elka Syntex.
Yep.
Places like that get boarded up because of lack of attendance money.
What may be an obsession with some people isn’t an obsession with most people.
Same route Movieland museum, the Liberace museum and the Johnny Cash museum went: bust.
Not diversified enough and usually located out in the middle of nowhere.
A very different model from the Louvre, Smithsonian, Getty, Huntington, Norton Simon, NY Met, etc.
Yes to all of what you said, but particularly to this. It was right in the middle of nowhere - it should have been in London, Birmingham or Manchester near some major transport links. As it was you’d need a car a and a good map (no GPS back then for most people). Also there was little or no internet back then - so you had to phone up to find anything out about it, whereas now you’d probably get a mini-virtual tour and be able to book tickets etc.
Wish I had visited that place but it was a long swim across the pond. Oh well at least I have the book, which is essential drool-worthy fodder for synth enthusiasts.
I did visit the place after a phone call appointment with Martin and a long motorcycle ride one October back in 1996…the museum itself reminded me of a low agricultural bulding to the rear of private property , you got to it via the back garden ! and you went thru a door (there was a plaque… “Opened by Bob Moog” )and I descended a spiral stairs into an Aladins Cave. Too much to take in one go and my mission for the eveining was the Moog section..two full modulars. One early 901bs and one later 921b’s with Bode and a 3P plus many Minimoogs, Memory Moog, etc in fact every Moog made , keyboards and a very early modular cab…and I played them all evening taking photos and getting some samples from the mods, but it all went by like a dream (cue the harp arpeggio sound) . As for ARPs / Roland/ Wasps/Oberhiems etc etc etc and just about every synth you ever heard of and more besides… all they got was a quick glance due to time. And I had the place to myself !
I’m pretty sure I saw a chunk of the museum in the basement of Turnkey music in London in '98. They had some kind of deal where you buy a sampler or something and could do a sample session or something odd like that, but I think it was mostly for show at least at the time. Anyway the gear and then Turnkey are gone now.
I understand EMIS Music and it’s owner Andy Horrell have quite a lot of gear in Bristol
Correct, both book and video are here. It was something to do with a situation between husband and wife, where he was forced to part with most (if not all) of the gear. Sad but true. I had hopes they’d do what none of the so-called “museums” have done, get some music made there…
That would have been nice.
However with consideration that all the gear was sold and likely ended up in many musician’s hands, that wish is probably fulfilled better now than if it had all stayed under one roof as a museum.
Oppositely, there are many studios that could be fantastic museums if they weren’t being used for making music.
But I agree- the worst thing is having the gear and not making music nor allowing anyone to explore and learn from them.
That reminded me of when I went to buy a Prophet 5 from a well known music studio here in Quebec, a few years ago. When I arrived, there were a few synths piled-up in their ATA carry cases in a corner of the studio.
A Moog Source, the Prophet 5, a Minimoog D, and a Jupiter 8. I wish I have had the money to buy all of those at the time. But what struck me, was what the studio owner told me when I pointed at all the other synths; “Yeah, we don’t use those anymore. They’ve been lying here for a while, and now it’s time to make room. They’re too bulky, too expensive to maintain, and frankly artists can’t tell the difference between those and software synths, so we use those instead…”. Even though there was a $120,000 Grand Piano in there. 
I felt so sad to learn that these gems hadn’t been played for who knows how long ? A few months later, I called them back and asked if any of the other synths were still available, and was told they were all sold to different people. I was disappointed, but glad that music was probably being made again with those.
Eventually, after fixing it (new bushings and a few other minor things), I sold the Prophet 5 to another musician, who is still using it today to compose and record music with it, as it should.
I have spoken to Martin Newcomb on the phone a very nice dedicated person, he signed a copy of his book, i own the Polymoog 280a featured on his lawn in the book serial 1003
Another problem Martin faced was instrument failures,which were quite common, repair costs/transportation/insurance just whittled away at his profits,but he sold off some great memorabilia (stickers,manuals,schematics,) I bought the video,2 museum catalogues and a cool Moog brass belt badge!
but location was a problem as well,sure I could have trekked to Somerset-but work killed that wish! pity…
but the instruments are still around,being used just as they should be.
A brave attempt from a brave guy!
Used to be an enthusiast in Glasgow (1998),Majeet Singh who ran a shop off Jamaica street called Data Technical with big jim McKenna (now Singing Cat Services) doing the tech stuff. Did computer stuff,but sold analogue stuff as well, but short lived,just ran out of gear,moved onto more profitable circles..could have bought an Odyssey for 400 quid,Proptht T8 for 1300 when he sold up! The good old days!