Guitars – the Museum is a downtown celebration of the electric guitar and its cultural history. The collection includes vintage instruments, rare prototypes, and guitars linked to famous musicians, displayed with the kind of care more usually reserved for fine art. It is a specialist museum with a genuine passion for its subject, and even visitors who do not play will find the exhibition design engaging.
The museum sits in a central location and is not large, but the curation is dense — each instrument comes with context about the player, era, and style it represents. Worth an hour for any music enthusiast, and particularly satisfying in a city where rock music has been so central to local identity.