Place de la Musique (Barrington Hills, Illinois)

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A private museum, also known as the Sanfilippo Collection. Owned by Jasper Sanfilippo, the former CEO of John B. Sanfilippo and Son, Inc., it is home to one of the world's foremost collections of antique music machines, which includes orchestrions, phonograph players, music boxes, player pianos, and fairground music machines. It also houses a 1927 Wurlitzer 8,000-pipe theater pipe organ, considered to be one of the largest in the world.

The museum also contains various other collections, encompassing steam engines, clocks, stained art glass, chandeliers, casino & gambling machines, and other interesting items. Elsewhere on the property is a monumental 1890 salon carousel, dubbed "Eden Palais", as well as a complete steam locomotive dating to 1881 that served at Ford's River Rouge factory complex in Dearborn, Michigan.

Although the museum is located in a residential house owned by the Sanfilippos, Mr. Sanfilippo resides with his wife in a separate large mansion on the same road, just to the East of the museum.