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  1. Open Day (21.06.2026)

    The State Institute for Music Research and the Berlin Philharmonic invite you to attend. A day full of music for everyone in Berlin. The Musical Instrument Museum of the State Institute for Music Research and the Philharmonie Berlin are opening their doors. As well as numerous musical performances,

  2. Mireya Salinas

    Mireya Salinas Event management and cultural education Mireya Salinas has been working for the Musical Instruments Museum of the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung (State Institute for Music Research) since July 2013, and since 2016 she has been responsible for the area of Cultural Education an

  3. Dr. Marten Noorduin

    Dr. Marten Noorduin Interview with Research Stipend Holder Dr Marten Noorduin (January – March 2022) SIM: What is your background? I am a historical musicologist and pianist with an interest in nineteenth-century music, with a focus on issues related to performance practices. My doctorate research a

  4. Interpretation Research

    Interpretation Research Interpretation research is one focus of scholarly work at the Institut für Musikforschung. It takes as its starting point the sound created during performance, which is understood as the primary manifestation of composed music. Researchers at the SIM, then, are less concerned

  5. Highlights of the Exhibition

    Highlights of the Exhibition One of the highlights of the display collection is a nearly complete set of wind instruments used by the town pipers of Naumburg, Germany, in around 1600. Other gems of the collection include the famous Bach harpsichord (the original as well as later replicas), transvers

  6. Central Themes of the Collection

    Central Themes of the Collection The museum collects instruments of European art music dating from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. One special focus is early harpsichords and spinets, such as those from the Ruckers family workshop, as well as string instruments made by master instrument m

  7. Dr. Benedikt Brilmayer

    Dr. Benedikt Brilmayer Researcher and curator for bowed and plucked stringed instruments and electronic instruments Since 2017 Researcher and curator at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum SIM PK (bowed and plucked string instruments, electronic instruments) 2015–2017 Research assistant at the Musikinstrum