Musical Instrument Museum or Museum of Musical Instruments may refer to:
Worldwide:
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, Rome, Italy
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Bate Collection of Musical Instruments
The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments is a collection of historic musical instruments, mainly for Western classical music, from the Middle Ages onwards. It is housed in Oxford University's Faculty of Music near Christ Church on St. Alda ...
, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Berlin Musical Instrument Museum
The Berlin Musical Instrument Museum () is located at the Kulturforum on Tiergartenstraße in Berlin, Germany. The museum holds over 3,500 musical instruments from the 16th century onward and is one of the largest and most representative musi ...
, Germany
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Eboardmuseum, Klagenfurt, Austria
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Galleria Borghèse - The National Museum of Musical Instruments, Rome, Italy
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Gurminj Museum of Musical Instruments, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
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Musée de la musique - Cité de la musique, Paris, France
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Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments, Athens, Greece
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Museum of Musical Instruments, Céret, France
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Museum of Musical Instruments of Leipzig University
The Museum of Musical Instruments of the University of Leipzig () is a museum in Leipzig, Germany. It is located on Johannisplatz, near the city centre. The museum belongs to the University of Leipzig and is also part of the Grassi Museum, whose ...
, Germany
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Museum of Musical Instruments (Florence), Italy
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Museum of Musical Instruments (Milan)
The Museum of Musical Instruments of Milan exhibits over 700 musical instruments from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries with particular attention to Lombardy, Lombard instruments. The collection contains Plucked string instrument, plucked instr ...
, Italy
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Museum of Portuguese Music
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers ...
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Music Museum (Basel)
The Music Museum is located in Basel, Switzerland and houses the country's largest collection of musical instruments. The museum is one of three components of Historisches Museum Basel. It presents five centuries of music history with three areas ...
, Switzerland
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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 ...
, Belgium
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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 ...
, Russia
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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 ...
, Kaunas, Lithuania
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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 featu ...
, Tebosa, Portugal
United States:
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Musical Instrument Collection, New York, New York, United States
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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 miss ...
, Carlsbad, California, United States
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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 2 ...
, Arizona, United States
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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 Univers ...
, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States
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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 ...
Museum of Musical Instruments, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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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 a ...
Guitar museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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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 ...
, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
See also
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Mandolin Melodies Museum
is a private museum in Nagoya. It is the only museum that specializes specifically in mandolins in the world.
History
Mandolin Melodies Museum was founded by mandolin player Hirokazu Nanya in a renovated pharmacy. The museum opened on May 8, ...
, Nagoya, Japan
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