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  1. Through time on the guitar! (05.03.2023)

    Family concert with Pavel Steidl and Patricia Meyer-Fiebrich. Start: 11 a.m. World-class guitarist Pavel Steidl and presenter Patricia Meyer-Fiebrich invite you to a family concert. A musical journey through time on the concert guitar! Composers such as Paganini, Torroba and Pavel Steidl will make t

  2. 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

  3. European Restoration Day (20.10.2024)

    Get to know examples of current conservation and restoration projects at the Musical Instrument Museum! Every year, on the third Sunday in October, Europe celebrates Restoration Day . Studios and construction sites open their doors so that you can get to know examples of current conservation and res

  4. The musical instruments collection of César Snoeck as source of "facsimiles" (11.02.2026)

    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

  5. Structure

    Structure The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung (State Institute for Music Research) is an institution of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation). The Institute is directed by Dr Rebecca Wolf . Organizational chart of the SIM The Staatliche Institut für Mus

  6. Location and directions

    Location and directions The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz is part of the "Kulturforum Berlin", an area of urban development between the Landwehr Canal, Großer Tiergarten and Potsdamer Platz in the Tiergarten quarter of Berlin Mitte. The Institute is located in the l

  7. Siegfried Jung Trio and BrassAppeal (19.09.2024)

    For the Year of the Tuba. Admission: 10 euros, reduced 5 euros An extraordinary concert awaits all tuba fans - and those who want to become one. With tuba player Natascha Zickerick and her ensemble BrassAppeal as well as the Siegfried Jung Trio. Four women, four musical worlds - that's the BrassAppe

  8. MIM inside - Special Guided Tour (02.02.2025)

    Employees of the Musikinstrumenten-Museum will guide you through the collection. with Thomas MacMillan , Research assistant (in English) On this English-language tour, visitors will get a comprehensive overview of the museum’s collection, spanning from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. The

  9. Early Music Live: Low Brass. From Serpent to Tuba and Twoba (15.12.2024)

    Lecture recital with tuba player Roland Szentpáli on the ‘Year of the Tuba 2024’. As part of the ‘40 years of SIM at the Kulturforum’ events At the beginning of 2023, the Musical Instrument Museum acquired 14 brass instruments in the tenor and bass registers from the 18th to the early 20th century.

  10. Organology

    Organology Organology is a discipline of musicology dedicated to the study and description of musical instruments. Since its establishment by Curt Sachs, it has made use of interdisciplinary aids and techniques, primarily from art history, but also from ethnology and physics. Areas of responsibility