Despite the corporate building exterior and interior look, MIM offers a surprisingly vast collection of musical instruments. Organized my geographical regions, each exhibit had some videos regarding the musical instruments in that region. I was impressed by the headphone technology which will start the audio for the video of the exhibit if you are in close range. The experience would not be the same had all the exhibits been blaring music and audio in close range. Sometimes the sound started breaking in and out though.
The Experience room with instruments was the highlight. I believe it's great for people to be able to interact with instruments. I would strongly encourage expanding the experience room and make it more educational rather than a free-for-all playroom. The trend is for museums to be more hands on to engage the visitors. Mini training rooms to learn an instrument like in Seattle's MoPOP would be amazing. It would also bring return visitors and increase memberships. I would love to see live performances from local music students/performers in the lobby.
The exhibit regarding those who made musical instruments out of recycled materials was fascinating. A hands on exhibit of how to make musical instruments would be great.
All the staff are lovely and the museum is quite pleasant. I just see so much potential in what it could be should they develop more hands-on activities for the guests rather than purely a mostly video tour experience of exhibits.