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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

Olga Adelmann: Master Violin Maker, Restorer, Scholar How international collaboration lead to the discovery of forgotten masterpieces In my personal possession I have an old postcard from the year 1938. The picture side shows a panorama of the city of Cremona with the white marble facade and the ico

Archives Special Exhibitions and Projects 8 September 2023 to 11 February 2024 Johann Joachim Quantz: Musician - Pedagogue - Instrument Maker 23. Mai 2020 bis 16. September 2023 Porzellan und Musik Konzerte und Führungen in Kunstgewerbe- und Musikinstrumenten-Museum 1 February to 23 July 2023 From B

Silent film from 1930 with Otto Gebühr as Frederick II of Prussia, accompanied live on the Mighty Wurlitzer theater organ by Jörg Joachim Riehle. Start: 6 p.m. Titles in German. Special guided tour of the Quantz exhibition at 5 p.m. Start of the film screening: 6 p.m. Start of the 30-minute special

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

Dr. Thomas MacMillan Research Institute Assistant Higher education 2019–2022 PhD at the University of Arts Berlin Dissertation: „I Might Be Wrong: Modal Fluctuation in the Music of Radiohead“ 2009–2014 Studies in musicology and composition (Bachelor and Master degrees) Newcastle University, England

Music theory Music theory is one of the main fields of research pursued at the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung (State Institute for Music Research). After careful planning and thorough discussion, the “History of Music Theory” project was created to provide a formal, long-term context for st

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

Tickets Museum admission Regular admission 10 euros, reduced 5 euros Tours 3 euros (plus museum admission) Three-day ticket Berlin museums (Berlin museum pass) 32 euros, reduced 16 euros Annual ticket – Basic (only with time slot) 25 euros Annual ticket – Classic 59 euros, reduced 25 euros Annual ti

Discology SIM pursues discology research based on the premise that radio, records and compact discs are not just media for transmitting and storing music but, like musical instruments, are media of music itself. Edison cylinder from the sound recording collection of the SIMPK library. Photograph by