The Jacksonville Area Music Museum (JAMM) is the Jacksonville Historical Society's tribute to the rich musical history and culture of Northeast Florida. Constructed within the restored Casket Factory campus, the JAMM is a space for performance, education, reflection, and inspiration. Through sounds, sites, and stories, the JAMM is fusing folk-historical traditions with new technologies to bring Jacksonville's music to a new generation of listeners.

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Music has been an integral part of life in Northeast Florida since before the area's sixteenth-century colonization. In the Pre-Columbian era, song, dance, and instrumental performance thrived within the cultural and ceremonial practices of indigenous groups such as the Timucua tribal confederation. As Spanish and African arrivals established some of the earliest colonial settlements in the United States, they brought their own sets of liturgical, folkloric, and sonic traditions to the area--setting off a rich and complex history of musical fusion and innovation. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from blues pioneers to southern-rock stars, artists from the First Coast have made their mark on both Northeast Florida culture and popular music as a whole. The JAMM is committed to sharing the story of Jax music and its impact on both the region and the wider world.

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While many of the JAMM's subjects and materials have local origins, their implications are universal; the oral histories and artifacts within the museum speak to the depth, variety, and overarching commonality of human experience. For more information on the museum, see our story, or contact us to tell your own.