Museum of Musical Instruments
A museum of musical instruments is a museum in that music instruments to be issued. Here mostly distinctive between collections with non-European exhibits and such, which are concerned with the history of the classical-European instruments. In addition, many institutes accommodate exhibitions of both areas.
However sometimes many cities in Germany and Austria have own museums for music instruments, the collections also in technical museums are accommodated, like for example in the German museum in Munich. The museum of musical instruments in Leipzig is accommodated in the there university, in Vienna is the collection until today, begun by the having citizens, in the yard castle. Worth mentioning also the museum of musical instruments is Mark new churches, which contains one of the largest collections of pieces from the whole world.
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