SanFilippo Estate Tour

This docent-led, three-hour tour of the Sanfilippo Estate offers an immersive look at one of the world’s finest collections of restored automated music machines inside a stunning French Second Empire residence. Guests will see and hear historic phonographs, orchestrions, reproducing pianos, violin machines, and more, culminating in a mini-concert on the world’s largest theater pipe organ, a spectacular 1927 Wurlitzer.

The tour continues in the Carousel Pavilion, featuring dance and band organs, calliopes, an 1881 steam locomotive, and the fully restored Eden Palais Carousel—an 1890 European salon carousel with 36 hand-carved horses and an 89-key Gavioli band organ. It’s a rare chance to experience these remarkable instruments and attractions much as audiences did over a century ago.

If 30 participants is not reached, the event will be cancelled and your money will be refunded.