The Drum Museum is small but so much fun - easily one of my favorite places to take young children. Lots of instruments to play, no one else there, and the room must be decently soundproofed because we did not leave with headaches.
The museum is on the 4th floor of this brick building; the ground floor is, reasonably, a percussion shop.
The museum is a medium-sized room filled with a few hundred percussion instruments.
We tried most of the instruments in about an hour. There were drums and shakers and jigglers made of wood and skins and horns and a turtle shell. A big hollow stick filled with rice (or something similarly small) sounds like falling rain when you flip it upside down.
Short videos seem like the best way to show and tell.
Here's Arno with an instrument from Indonesia:
Lucinda with this neat jiggling thing, maybe also from Indonesia?
Blaine with a Korean drum:
Lucinda plays a steel drum from Jamaica.
Drumming by our friends, Rena Singer (her husband, John Murphy, works for the Wall St. Journal) and her two children, Benjamin and Eden:
And finally, these pleasant Tinkerbell bells:
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