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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

History The history of the Berlin Musikinstrumenten-Museum (Museum of Musical Instruments) dates back to 1888 when Philipp Spitta and Joseph Joachim founded the "Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente" (Collection of Old Musical Instruments) at the Königliche Akademische Hochschule (Royal Academy) in Berli

Visiting the Museum The Musikinstrumenten-Museum is generally open every week from Tuesday to Sunday. This page provides information about your visit with us. Virtual tour We invite you to take a virtual tour of the museum. Start here Events You can get an overview of our events here SIM Café The SI

Service Contact our picture archive, lost objects or a break in the SIM café: here you will find further information on various services offered by the Musikinstrumenten-Museum. Picture library The image archive of the Musikinstrumenten-Museum holds extensive documentation material on the museum's o

Press The press office of the Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung provides information about the Institute's research projects as well as events and exhibitions of the Musikinstrumenten-Museum. Please direct requests for interviews or event information to press contact . If you would like to rece

About us The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung is the largest non-university research center for musicology in Germany. Its building is part of the Berlin Kulturforum, next to the Philharmonie and the Sony Center, designed by Edgar Wisniewski after sketches by Hans Scharoun. It is a place of hi

Museum The objects on permanent exhibit at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum form one of the most representative collections in Germany in its diversity. Over 800 instruments across five centuries are on permanent display. In addition, the museum offers numerous events, from scientific symposia to concer

Emanuele Marconi, director of the SIMPK Musical Instrument Museum, discusses the important collection of Belgian César Snoeck as the source of the first known museum reproductions. Belgian collector César Snoeck (1834–1898) assembled one of the largest and most important musical instrument collectio

The Musikinstrumenten-Museum of the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung collects musical instruments of European art music from the 16th to the 21st century. The museum currently has around 3,600 instruments in its collection, many of which are in playable condition. A good 800 instruments are o

Schönberg24 "Schönberg is dead", composer and conductor Pierre Boulez proclaimed in 1951. Despite such prophecies of doom, Schönberg's compositional and theoretical work continues to attract a great deal of attention from performers, contemporary composers, and audiences alike. In three series of ev