Songbirds featured in USA Today's best music museums contest

Staff file photo / Guitars are displayed at the Songbirds Guitar Museum on Station Street. There will be plenty of music upstairs and down this week.
Staff file photo / Guitars are displayed at the Songbirds Guitar Museum on Station Street. There will be plenty of music upstairs and down this week.

USA Today is asking readers online to choose their favorite music museum and The Songbird's Guitar Museum is among the choices.

Featuring the world's largest collection of rare and unique guitars and more, the museum is located at the Chattanooga Choo Choo. It opened in March of 2017 and has 550 guitars on display at any given time and a total of 2,000 (and counting) currently in its possession.

Visitors can tour the exhibits to get a full picture of the guitar's evolution from the 1920s to the 1970s, but the most captivating part of the experience for many is learning what each individual instrument has witnessed and all the places each has been - from bar to concert to studio.

The Songbirds Foundation, a nonprofit that's a byproduct of the museum, is currently on mission to put guitars in the hands of kids and provide them with lessons. Over 1,600 kids have participated in the Guitars for Kids program, which also uses donated guitars and music therapy.

Go here to vote. The polls are open every day until Monday, February 17 at noon ET.

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