Ringve-Museum

Ringve Museum is Norway's national museum for music and musical instruments with collections from around the world.

Location

Ringve Museum is located in the cargo area on the loading Peninsula on the outskirts of the city of Trondheim and is situated in a botanical garden of the Natural Sciences and Engineering University of Norway ( NTNU ) is operated.

History

The first house was built there in 1521. The current building was built Formation from 1850. When the property was sold in 1878, the family was Bachke owners. In 1919 one of the sons, Christian Anker Bachke, the estate. He married the Russian Victoria Rostin. The couple had no children, but began to collect historical musical instruments. The museum was opened in 1952. Overall, there are about 1,500 instruments in the collection, also images and recordings of music.

Many famous musicians visited the property, including Artur Schnabel, Lilly Krauss, Ignaz Friedman, Percy Grainger, Kirsten Flagstad and Edvard Munch.

The exhibition

The exhibition is divided into two parts: the main house and the barn.

The mansion

In the mansion functioning instruments are issued, mainly keyboard instruments. It is possible to visit the house as part of a guide, the leader often allude to some music on the instruments.

The ground floor rooms, which are named after Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin, where among other things, their favorite instruments are on display. Upstairs is dedicating a room Elisabeth Wiborg and Adelina Patti, and it presents the traditional Hardanger fiddles. Furthermore, there is a Grieg - space and a space are built up in the church musical instruments.

The barn

In the barn other musical instruments are on display. In a second room also instruments can be tested, eg a cow horn, xylophone, drums and wooden pipes.