Grainger Museum

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Grainger Museum

Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne
Established	1938
Location	University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Type	Autobiographical museum
Website	https://grainger.unimelb.edu.au

The Grainger Museum is a repository of items documenting the life, career and music of the composer, folklorist, educator and pianist Percy Grainger (b. Melbourne, 1882; d. White Plains, New York, 1961), located in the grounds of the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

In the early 1920s, Grainger began to develop an idea for an autobiographical museum so that "all very intimate letters or notes should be deposited in an Australian Grainger Museum, preferably in birth-town Melbourne".^[1] Grainger was a linguistic purist, advocating for the use of a 'Blue-Eyed English' derived from Anglo-Saxon and Germanic glossary.^[2] As a result, he generally used the word 'past-hoard-house' for museums,^[3] but agreed to the word 'museum' in this case.