The Ocarina Museum
A collection of ocarinas, cataloged instrument by instrument.
I am an ocarina collector, player, and maker, and I have been building this museum website since August 2019. Ocarinas are not well documented: what is known about a maker or an instrument tends to live in one person’s memory, or on one website, and it is easily lost. This museum is an attempt to keep a record — what each instrument is, who made it, and, when possible, how it sounds.
Collectors from around the world have joined me, each collection under its owner’s name, and we expect the finished catalog to hold more than 1,000 ocarinas.
Some of what is here was nearly lost already. This site was hacked in the summer of 2024 and is being rebuilt from scratch; the maker interviews on the Articles page come from another ocarina website that went offline for good.
The catalog is still filling. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at theocarinamuseum@gmail.com. I look forward to hearing from you.