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  1. Special Exhibitions

    Special Exhibitions In addition to the permanent exhibition, there are regular special exhibitions or presentations that refer to current topics ("Instrument of the Year") or research projects. The aim is to constantly shed new light on the museum's holdings from different perspectives. The exhibiti

  2. Dr Rebecca Wolf

    Dr Rebecca Wolf Rebecca Wolf is the director of the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung. She is a musicologist with a focus on the cultural history of music and organology in the 19th and 20th centuries, on the history of interpretation and media studies. CV Since August 2021 Director of the Sta

  3. Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums

    Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums The Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums (Bibliography of Music Literature, BMS) was created in 1936 by our predecessor institution, the Staatliches Institut für deutsche Musikforschung (State Institute for German Music Research) in Berlin, in order to establish a co

  4. Flavia Hennig, M.A.

    Flavia Hennig, M.A. Higher Education 04/2018–09/2023 MA studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin: Musicology 09/2016–01/2017 Erasmus semester in France at the Université Lumière Lyon 2: Musicology 10/2014–08/2018 BA studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin: core subject Musicology, second su

  5. 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

  6. Publications

    Publications The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung publishes the results of its research in various publications, including its own scientific series, catalogs, museum guides and CD series. The core publication activities of the State Institute for Music Research concern its research on the per

  7. Louis Petitjean

    Louis Petitjean Research Assistant at the Musical Instrument Museum Louis Petitjean is a PhD student at the University of Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne, a member of the HiCSA "Histoire Culturelle et Sociale de l'Art" laboratory and is under the joint supervision of Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di

  8. 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

  9. SIM Yearbook 2022 “Zeitgenosse Hoffmann” published (21.11.2025)

    The 2022 yearbook of the State Institute for Music Research on the topic of “Contemporary Hoffmann” is now available at https://simjb.journals.qucosa.de/simjb. The contributions in this volume are based on the symposium “Zeitgenosse Hoffmann – Im Spannungsfeld von automatisierter und künstlerisch-in

  10. Audio-visual perception of<br> acoustical environments

    Audio-visual perception of acoustical environments Participant in the Virtual Concert Hall. Photo: Hans-Joachim Maempel From 2015 to 2018, the SIM conducted the second phase of the project "Audio-visual perception of acoustical environments" (MA 4343/1-2) within the framework of the DFG research uni