Australian Jazz Museum |
The Australian Jazz Museum (Incorporating the Victorian Jazz Archive) has an objective of collecting, archiving and disseminating Australian jazz.
The Australian Jazz Museum (AJM) mission is to Proactively Collect, Archive and Disseminate Australian Jazz.
We collect anything to do with Australian jazz, with special attention given to saving rare recordings on fragile media such as tape or acetate.
Sure, our collection includes thousands of jazz recordings from overseas, since no music can exist in a vacuum. But the AJM mainly collects Australian jazz: recordings, videos, concert materials, festival materials, memoirs, posters, books, etc. - everything related to Australian jazz, Australians playing jazz elsewhere in the world, and non-Australians playing jazz in Australia. Our collection includes Australian jazz materials from the 1920's through to the present, covering all jazz eras and all types of jazz. Our collection continues to grow thanks to generous donations of both older and current materials. If you have some current or older jazz recordings or materials that you would like to donate, we would love to add them to the collection!
Archiving - state-of-the-art storage
Recordings made on old media are carefully transferred to best-available current media using the latest applicable technology and then stored securely under archival conditions to ensure their preservation for the enjoyment of both current generations and future generations.
Disseminating - we want to share what we have
The AJM actively shares Australian jazz and Australian jazz knowledge. Our curators develop jazz exhibits; our volunteers produce a quarterly magazine; our sound technicians create compilation CDs of rare and/or previously unreleased tracks; and we aim to make as much of our collection as possible accessible online. Everyone is welcome to search our collection via the database link, to use our reference library, or to work with access copies of material in the collection. We run and host jazz workshops and seminars. We assist members, students, historians, and researchers with their jazz research, papers, history, video, and documentary projects.
If your organisation, event, radio or TV show like to have a speech, presentation, workshop, or interview about Australian jazz, please contact us!
Open on Tuesdays and Fridays 10.00am - 3.00pm or by arrangement
❊ What's On ❊
➼ Australian Jazz Museum | Open
❊ Address ❊
⊜ 15 Mountain Highway, Wantirna 3152 View Map
✆ Telephone: 03 9800 5535
❊ Web Links ❊
➼ Australian Jazz Museum
➼ www.ajm.org.au
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