Bagpipe Museum (United States)
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The Bagpipe Museum is a currently-defunct museum previously located in Ellicott City, Maryland
, USA.
The museum displayed a collection of over a hundred bagpipes from throughout Europe
, and maintained a large collection of bagpipe recordings and publications, as well as reproducing rare sheet music for the pipes.
The Bagpipe Museum, which opened in 1997, closed down in the late 2000s when the historic mill in which it was located was sold to developers. The collection has been maintained and there are tentative plans to re-establish the museum at a new location.
Maryland
Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
, USA.
The museum displayed a collection of over a hundred bagpipes from throughout Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, and maintained a large collection of bagpipe recordings and publications, as well as reproducing rare sheet music for the pipes.
The Bagpipe Museum, which opened in 1997, closed down in the late 2000s when the historic mill in which it was located was sold to developers. The collection has been maintained and there are tentative plans to re-establish the museum at a new location.