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Coventry Music Museum
The museum celebrates Coventry and Warwickshire’s musical history and achievements.  The Museum's Curater is respected Music Historian Pete Chambers Coventry musicians Hazel O’Connor, Neville Staple, Frank Ifield and producer Pete Waterman are Honorary Patrons of the museum. There are three temporary exhibitions each year, and along with the permanent displays. Admission to the museum is £2 for adults and £1 for children from the ages of five to fifteen. Opening Times are 10:00am - 4:00 pm Thursday till Sunday. The collection comprises of permanent collection including “Pre-Pop” display, charting the cities musical achievements from the Roman Occupation and The Coventry Carole and onto artist of the 1940’s. All decades of popular music are included, plus a showcase of new talent in “The Artist of the Month”. Each decade of Coventry & Warwickshire pop history is represented in the displays from the 1950’s to the noughties. Notable displays include a reproduction 1960’s record shop listening booth and a reproduction Rude Boys bedroom, based on a typical Specials, Selecter, Beat, Madness fan circa 1981. Nearly half of the museums’ exhibits are dedicated to 2-Tone Records, as the sub genre was created in the city by Jerry Dammers and The Specials and The Selecter in 1978-79. Key artists include, T.E. Dunville, Reg Dixon, Brian Locking, Delia Derbyshire, Frank Ifield, Vince Hill, The Sorrows, Pinkerton’s Colours, Lieutenant Pigeon, Jigsaw, Don Fardon, Hazel O’Connor, King, The Primitives, Fun Boy Three, Peter Waterman, The Specials, The Selecter, The Beat, Madness, Stereo Nation, Panjabi MC, Billie Myers and The Enemy. The Museum has been favorably reviewed by BBC Coventry And Warwickshire ; Visit Coventry and Warwickshire and Trip Advisor and Museums Heritage Advisor. 11:30, 12 October 2014 (UTC)11:30, 12 October 2014 (UTC)