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Musical Instrument Museum (Munich)
Musical Instrument Museum or Museum of Musical Instruments may refer to: Worldwide: *Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Musical Instruments Museum, Rome, Italy *Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, Oxford, United Kingdom *Berlin Musical Instrument Museum, Germany *Eboardmuseum, Klagenfurt, Austria *Galleria Borghese, Galleria Borghèse - The National Museum of Musical Instruments, Rome, Italy *Gurminj Museum of Musical Instruments, Dushanbe, Tajikistan *Cité de la Musique#Musée de la musique, Musée de la musique - Cité de la musique, Paris, France *Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments, Athens, Greece *Museum of Musical Instruments, Céret, France *Museum of Musical Instruments of Leipzig University, Germany *Museum of Musical Instruments (Florence), Italy *Museum of Musical Instruments (Milan), Italy *Museum of Portuguese Music *Music Museum (Basel), Switzerland *Musical Instrument Museum, Brussels, Belgium *Musical Instrument Museum (Volgograd), Russia *Povilas Stulga M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia Musical Instruments Museum
The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Musical Instruments Museum (MUSA) is the museum holding the instruments collection of musical instruments of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Description Its location is the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Italy. It was designed by architect Renzo Piano and inaugurated in February 2008. In the exhibition gallery some 130 instruments are on display and about 50 luthiery tools in an open-air laboratory where the museum luthiers work. Collection The exhibition path moves through plucked string instruments, bowed, winds, harps, lyres and also includes keyboards. Amongst the most important instruments in the collection is the violin known as the 'Tuscan Strad' built by Antonio Stradivari in 1690 together with the four instruments forming the so-called 'Maedicean quintet', built for the Grand Prince Ferdinando de' Medici. Another outstanding piece is the viola The viola ( , () ) is a string instrument of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Instrument Museum, Brussels
The Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) (; ) is a music museum in central Brussels, Belgium. It is part of the Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH) and is internationally renowned for its collection of over 8,000 instruments. Since 2000, the museum has been located in the former Old England (department store), Old England department store, built in 1899 by Paul Saintenoy out of girded steel and glass in Art Nouveau style, as well as the adjoining 18th-century Neoclassical architecture, neoclassical building designed by Gilles-Barnabé Guimard, Barnabé Guimard. Located at 2, / on the Mont des Arts, Mont des Arts/Kunstberg, the museum stands next to the Place Royale (Brussels), Place Royale/Koningsplein and across the street from the Magritte Museum. It is served by Brussels-Central railway station and Park metro station, Parc/Park metro station on lines Brussels Metro line 1, 1 and Brussels Metro line 5, 5 of the Brussels Metro. History Early history The MIM collection was cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yale University Collection Of Musical Instruments
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Yale was established as the Collegiate School in 1701 by Congregationalist clergy of the Connecticut Colony. Originally restricted to instructing ministers in theology and sacred languages, the school's curriculum expanded, incorporating humanities and sciences by the time of the American Revolution. In the 19th century, the college expanded into graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first PhD in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887. Yale's faculty and student populations grew rapidly after 1890 due to the expansion of the physical campus and its scientific research programs. Yale is organized into fifteen constituent schools, including the original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songbirds Guitar Museum
Songbirds Guitar Museum is a museum which features guitars and it is located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The museum was opened in 2018 as a for profit business: it closed in 2020. The museum reopened as a Nonprofit organization in September 2021 and was rebranded the Songbirds Guitar & Pop Culture Museum. History 2018–2020 The museum opened in 2018 in Terminal Station (Chattanooga, Tennessee) which was originally opened in 1909 and saw the arrival of dozens of trains per day prior to WWII. The curator was guitar collector David Davidson who collected rare guitars while the museum was funded and overseen by President Johnny Smith (of the McKenzie Foundation) and investor/collector Thorpe McKenzie. The museum displayed vintage and celebrity guitars, and hosted live music events. The museum had 1,500 guitars from a private collection; many were rare and valuable. The museum had two Gibson Explorers worth one million dollars each. It also had 36 1958-1960 Sunburst Les Paul guitar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schubert Club
The Schubert Club, established in 1882, is a non-profit arts organization in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, that promotes the art of music, particularly recital music. The Club presents eight concert series annually at various venues, runs an annual scholarship competition for music students, provides after-school music lessons, presents master classes, commissions new musical works by American composers, and produces recordings and books. The Museum and the administrative offices are located in the historic Landmark Center in downtown Saint Paul. History The Schubert Club began in 1882 as the Ladies Musicale. Its founders created the organization to support recital music and host touring artists in the city. The club played a role in the musical life of St. Paul, presenting events that included appearances by artists such as Josef Hoffman and Jan Kubelik. The Schubert Club also supported musicians, including Emil Oberhoffer, who became the first conductor of the Minne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Music Museum
The National Music Museum: America's Shrine to Music & Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments (NMM) is a musical instrument museum in Vermillion, South Dakota, United States. It was founded in 1973 on the campus of the University of South Dakota. The NMM is recognized as "A Landmark of American Music" by the National Music Council. The NMM's renowned collections, which include American, European, and non-Western instruments from a wide breadth cultures and historical periods, are among the world's most inclusive. They contain many of the earliest, best preserved, and historically most Western important instruments known to survive. The quality and scope of the NMM has earned it international recognition. In August 2023, the museum re-opened its permanent exhibitions following a multi-year renovation and reinstallation. Alongside a modern addition to the historic Carnegie Library building, the new galleries offer over 16,000 square feet of displays showcasing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Instrument Museum (Phoenix)
The Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) is located in Phoenix, Arizona. Opened in April 2010, it is the largest museum of its type in the world. The collection of over 15,000 musical instruments and associated objects includes examples from nearly 200 countries and territories, representing every inhabited continent. Some larger countries such as the United States, Mexico, India, China, and Brazil have multiple displays with subsections for different types of ethnic, Folk music, folk, and tribal music. Overview The Museum was founded by Bob Ulrich, Robert J. Ulrich, former CEO and chairman of Target Corporation. A collector of African art and a world museum enthusiast, Ulrich and his friend Marc Felix originated the idea after a visit to the Musical Instrument Museum (Brussels), Musical Instrument Museum in Brussels, Belgium. The design of the museum benefited as well from the consultation of the Cité de la Musique#Musée de la Musique, Musée de la Musique in Paris modernised in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Making Music
The Museum of Making Music, is a signature program of the National Association of Music Merchants' NAMM Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Carlsbad, California. The museum opened to the public on March 5, 2000. Its mission is to "explore the accomplishments and impact of the music products industry through educational and interactive exhibitions and programs and directly connect visitors with hands-on music making." The museum's exhibits cover three main components of the music industry: making the instruments, providing the instruments, and using the instruments. The museum's galleries feature more than 450 vintage instruments and artifacts, hundreds of audio samples of popular music and a visitors interactive area with live, hands-on instruments, along with Sit 'N Play areas near the end of the main galleries. In addition to its permanent collection, the museum self-curates temporary exhibitions that revolve around a core theme or idea. These exhibiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Museum Of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an Encyclopedic museum, encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the List of largest museums, third-largest museum in the world and the List of largest art museums, largest art museum in the Americas. With 5.36 million visitors in 2023, it is the List of most-visited museums in the United States, most-visited museum in the United States and the List of most-visited art museums, fifth-most visited art museum in the world. In 2000, its permanent collection had over two million works; it currently lists a total of 1.5 million works. The collection is divided into 17 curatorial departments. The Met Fifth Avenue, The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile, New York, Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's list of largest art museums, largest art museums. The first portion of the approximately building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stringed Instruments Museum
The Stringed Instruments Museum in Portuguese: Museu dos Cordofones is located in Tebosa, in the surroundings of the city of Braga, Portugal dedicated to traditional Portuguese string instruments. The museum opened in 1995. The collection features Portuguese instruments from the Middle Ages through to modern times, some have fallen into disuse. In the exhibit are Cavaquinhos, Portuguese guitars, Mandolins, banjos among others. References See also * List of music museums This list of music museums offers a guide to museums worldwide that specialize in the domain of music. These institutions are dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of music-related history, including the lives and works of prominent musicia ... {{Authority control Museums in Braga Musical instrument museums Museums established in 1995 Portuguese musical instruments Music organisations based in Portugal Music museums in Portugal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Povilas Stulga Museum Of Lithuanian Folk Instruments
The Povilas Stulga Museum of Lithuanian Folk Instruments () is located in the Old Town of Kaunas, Lithuania. It was established in 1985. Its permanent collection contains Lithuanian and international musical instruments, recordings, books, placards, photographs, and letters. Its musical instrument collection includes various versions of the kanklės, harmoniums, reeds, seven-string guitars, and a bass constructed using a table. History The museum was founded by the Kaunas City Council in 1985, as a branch of the Folk Museum of the Lithuanian SSR. The museum has had several changes of name. It opened as the Lithuanian Folk Music Instruments Museum, then became the Lithuanian SSR Folk Museum in 1989, followed by Povilas Stulga. In 2013 the museum became a branch of Kaunas City Museum, and is now called the Folk Music Museum. The museum is housed in a 16th-century Gothic house. Collection The museum's permanent collection contains Lithuanian and international musical instruments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Instrument Museum (Volgograd)
The Museum of Musical Instruments is a branch office of the Volgograd regional Museum of local lore. It began to form in 1926 as a private collection of musical instruments. During his life, Evgeny Nikolaevich Pushkin collected 262 unique musical instruments, which are currently in working condition. Due to the fact that the musician gave his collection to the city, all these instruments are now in the Museum. History Evgeny was a veteran of the Great Patriotic War and was born in a village (near Saratov province) in March 1904. Gifted with a perfect musical ear, Evgeny collected and restored musical instruments. When he was young, Evgeny Nikolayevich learned to play the accordion - which evidently was his first instrument. One day, when his uncle forgot the accordion at his brother's house, he came back to find it the next morning and surprisingly found his seven-year-old nephew playing folk melodies, without a single mistake. His uncle immediately decided to gift the accordion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
