The rather extraordinary #GraingerMuseum #UniversityOfMelbourne built 1935 & 1938 as a research collection for the study of the genius of its instigator, the rather extraordinary Australian composer/pianist Percy Grainger (1882-1961). Designed by the first Dean of Architecture at #UniMelb John Gawler - and Percy - it was intended as a repository of everything Percy, including other composers’ music & objects, as well as his collection of whips & relics of his mother (Rose suicided when confronted with rumours of an incestuous relationship with Percy); his skeleton, destined for the museum, didn’t eventually make it. In his problematic highly racialised view he would have preferred calling the museum a ‘past-hoard-house’ (but note he was a huge admirer of Duke Ellington). Thankfully after many tribulations & much neglect it’s survived (the website notes one female curator “ran away with a German weightlifter (female)”, though I haven’t visited since I did a 4th year project on it. (at Grainger Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5O4FJzHPI3/?igshid=3mxpel39oofz