Queen Studio Experience Montreux, Rock music museum in Montreux, Switzerland.
The Queen Studio Experience is a music museum inside the Casino Barrière de Montreux, displaying memorabilia, instruments, and personal items from the band's recording sessions at Mountain Studios. The exhibition occupies the original studio spaces, so visitors walk through rooms where the recordings actually took place.
Mountain Studios was bought by the band in the late 1970s and served as their main recording base until the early 1990s, when several albums took shape there. After Freddie Mercury died in 1991, the studio was eventually turned into a museum in 2013.
Visitors can sit at a real mixing console and try their hand at shaping Queen songs, which gives a sense of how sound is built in a professional studio. This hands-on area makes the visit engaging for people with no technical background.
Admission is free, which makes a visit easy to fit into any itinerary. Allow enough time to go through the interactive areas as well as the display cases, since there is a fair amount to take in.
Freddie Mercury loved Montreux so much that his ashes were buried in the city, and a statue of him still looks out over Lake Geneva. The museum sits only a short walk away, so many visitors combine both stops in a single outing.
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