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Dr Meredith Nicoll Fellow at the SIM from May to August 2026 Dr Meredith Nicoll is a musicologist, performer and cultural mediator. She studied singing, German language and literature, and musicology in the USA and Germany, and was awarded her PhD in 2025 from the Hamburg University of Music and The

Guided tours, concerts, behind-the-scenes tours, silent films, late-night special Theme of the Long Night 2026: Crime in Berlin Programme at the Musical Instrument Museum 6 pm Pink Panther: We Solve the Case – Concert for children and families 7 pm and 8 pm Forgeries, scandals and criminal tricks Gu

The event organised by the Ibero-American Institute, in collaboration with SIM, focuses on the Venezuelan pianist and composer Teresa Carreño.

From 18 May to 30 October 2026, the SIM is offering special art and music-themed guided tours of the Picture Gallery for nursery groups and school classes. Due to building works, there will be no morning guided tours for nurseries and schools at the Musical Instrument Museum of the State Institute f

Guided tour of the SIM’s acoustic studios to mark the 100th anniversary of Hans-Peter Reinecke’s birth As a musicologist, psychologist and experimental physicist , Prof. Dr Hans-Peter Reinecke (1926–2003) devoted his work to, amongst other things, room and building acoustics, the transmission of mus

The conductor and musicologist passed away on 26 April 2026, shortly before his 92nd birthday. The SIM owes him a great deal. Like many in the field of musicology, we too feel a deep connection to Peter Gülke and are deeply grateful to him. For many decades, he was a welcome speaker and panellist on

Dr Olga Sutkowska Curriculum Vitae October 2023–March 2026 Research Fellow at the State Institute for Music Research, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation 2018–2024 Postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 2013–2018 Research assistant, mus

Young artists introduce themselves. Featuring Kiana Reid, piano (HfM Hanns Eisler) Programme Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) 24 Preludes, Op. 28 Kiana Reid (Hanns Eisler Academy of Music, Berlin) Free admission. Donations welcome! Tickets available from 2.30 pm at the museum ticket office Further links

Due to renovation work, the SIMPK Musical Instrument Museum will be temporarily changing its opening hours from 18 May 2026. Due to renovation work, the Musical Instrument Museum of the State Institute for Music Research will temporarily change its opening hours from 18 May 2026. From Wednesday to F

A guided tour with audio samples and a demonstration of one of Europe’s largest cinema and theatre organs. The Musical Instrument Museum of the State Institute for Music Research collects musical instruments associated with European art music from the 16th to the 21st century. The museum currently h