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Museum, library, archive – three main types of “memory institutions”. This typological distinction does not appear to be particularly problematic from the viewpoint of general museology, library science or archival science (and corresponding legislation and practice). It becomes problematic only through the prism of some special museologies, namely those which largely deal with the musealization of “two-dimensional” (written, documentary and quasi-book) things and therefore have to clarify their attitude to institutions such as library and archive in terms of their subject. In no other museology is this problem more obvious than in museology of music. Terminological and conceptual chaos causes embarrassment over the question of whether music libraries fall into the subject field of this subdiscipline (and, if so, how) and whether they can be included in the same concept of “music museum”, which collectively refers to musical instrument museums or composer memorials. Everything is further complicated by the arbitrary use of the term “music archive”. In my paper, I define music museum and music library as two basic, complementary types of music-museal institutions, and I explain why and how music museology should be interested in both of these types.