Berlin Musical Instrument Museum

The Musical Instrument Museum Berlin comprises around 3,500 instruments, one of the largest and most representative musical instrument collections in Germany.

History

The museum was founded in 1888 as the " Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments" by Philipp Spitta and Joseph Joachim at the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin academic. The first exhibits were from the Museum of Decorative Arts. Today, the museum is part of the State Institute for Music Research and is thus part of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Since 1984, the museum is in a house designed by Edgar Wisniewski Kemperplatz, located right next to the Berlin Philharmonic at the Cultural Forum in Berlin. Where around 800 exhibits are presented in a permanent exhibition and - if playable - regularly demonstrated.

The Musical Instrument Museum ( MIM) and the State Institute for Music Research (SIM ) form a unit in Berlin. Its construction was built in 1979-1984 by Edgar Wisniewski designed by the architect Hans Scharoun died in 1972 next to the Berlin Philharmonie. Details of the facade and the building on the property cutting witness this imaginary unit of presentation and research. The presentation of historical musical instruments takes place in a suitable also for demonstrations large space to the a gallery running. The museum is one of the few places where a cinema organ can be demonstrated. This technique, known as the Mighty Wurlitzer instrument went in 1982 as a " gratuitous transfer of the Federal Republic of Germany " in the possession of the museum over. She stood up to that point in the concert hall of the Villa by Werner Ferdinand von Siemens, the grandson of the founder of the company Siemens in Berlin- Lankwitz. Every Thursday after the guided tour at 18:00 clock and every Saturday at 12:00 clock using the instrument. The Instrument tuition ( organology ) as a discipline of musicology can be experienced in many demonstrations here.

Since 1994, directs Conny Restle the museum.

Collection

Collection focuses on the harpsichords of the Flemish family of instrument makers Ruckers, Moeckel violins, Italian master violins of Amati, Guarneri and Antonio Stradivari, fortepiano, Kiel pianos and clavichords, Bechstein grand pianos and grand pianos, wind instruments of the Baroque, Moritz- brass instruments and automatic musical instruments ( music boxes, Orchestrion ). In the Historical Department of the SIM is a "history of music theory " developed and issued on behalf of the Institute as a book series.

The museum has its own concert hall, the Curt -Sachs -Saal, held chamber concerts regularly in the. Its equipment highlights the proximity to the Philharmonic and the Chamber Music Hall.

Exhibition

  • 2012: Frederick " Montezuma " Power and Meaning in the Prussian Court Opera.
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