Australian Jazz Museum (Wantirna)

The Australian Jazz Museum is home to the largest Australian jazz collection. It is a unique, wonderful, and growing national treasure. All of this material is catalogued to museum standard, and stored in archival conditions.

Our collection is made up of three broad components:
1) The heart of our collection comprises recordings of Australian jazz, some of which are unique or very rare, on a great variety of media. In addition there are oral histories of and by Australian jazz greats; video coverage of jazz events; posters advertising jazz concerts and festivals; photos and videos of jazz bands and musicians; jazz books, magazines, and diaries; jazz sheet music, charts, and band arrangements; jazz-club newsletters and histories; instruments donated by famous Australian jazz artists; and more.

2) Acknowledging the mutual relationship between jazz traditions and musicians of many countries around the world, we also maintain significant collections of overseas jazz recordings and materials.

3) We also house the archive of the Australian Jazz Convention, the world's longest running festival of this type, which has run every year since 1946. Each year the collection expands to encompass the current year's convention.

Australian Jazz Museum (Wantirna)

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