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| Musical Instruments Museums in Italy |
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| Municipal Collections of Applied Art and Prints - Museum
of Musical Instruments |
| MILANO Castello Sforzesco, p.zza Castello |
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Opening Hours:
Open every day, holidays included: 9.30-17.30
Closing days:
every Monday
Admission free
Phone:
02/860160
Web Site:
www.milanocastello.it |
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Notes:
The museum is housed in the Castello Sforzesco (Sforza Castle), the residence of the Visconti's and Sforza's courts
in the 14th- and 15th-century, later turned into barracks and finally restored by Luca Beltrami in the 19th-century.
Particularly, the collections are displayed on the two upper floors of the Rocchetta, except the section of antique
furniture, which is housed in four rooms on the ground floor of the Ducal Court. The miscellaneous collection includes
the Trivulzio collection (12 tapestries woven in Vigevano between 1504 and 1509), a decorative art collection,
17th to 19th-century time pieces, 13th to 15th-century ceramics, 18th and 19th-century European porcelain ware,
15th to 20th-century majolicas, ivory works, enamels, glass works, wooden sculptures and a collection of costumes
and accessories made from the 18th century onwards. Remarkable exhibits: a Gothic ostensory (1456) and a glass
chalice with the Sforzas coat-of-arms (late 15th century). The musical instrument museum houses more than 600 instruments,
among which a superb viola by Giovanni Grancino (1662), a violin by Rogeri (1662) and one by Andrea Guarneri. Among
the wind instruments: a 17th-century flute by Bressan; among the keyed instruments: a double virginal by Hans Ruckers
(1597) and a cembalo by Vito Trasuntino (1571). The Balla Hall displays 19th and 20th century keyed instruments.
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| Museum of Mechanical Musical Instruments |
| SESTOLA (Modena) Fortezza del Castello,
via Castello |
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Opening Hours:
10-12 and 16-19 (in July and Aug.); in the other periods it is possible
to examine it on request for schools, groups, etc.
Phone:
0536/62324 (Tourism Office)
0536/62743 (Town Hall)
Web Site:
museum page |
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Notes:
The museum displays the "Edward Thones" collection, consisting of mechanical musical instruments from
the 17th century until today; among them, a 19th-century chiming clock, a slot pianolas, barrel-organs, and music-boxes.
There are also a section devoted to sound reproduction and a room displaying pianolas.
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| Museum of the Ocarina and the Terra-cotta Musical Instruments |
| BUDRIO (Bologna) via Garibaldi, 35 |
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Opening Hours:
Sun. 15.30-18.30, the 1st Sun. in the month 10.30-12.30 and 15.30-18.30
(from Oct. to June) - closed the other days and from June to Sept.
Phone:
051/6928111 (Town Hall)
Web Site:
Budrio Ocarina Museum |
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Notes:
The museum, housed in the auditorium of the former Church of the Most Blessed Sacrament (16th century), is currently
under arrangement; it keeps a collection of models, photographic documentation and other evidences concerning the
ocarina, the typical terra-cotta instrument devised and constructed by Giuseppe Donati from Budrio in 1853-1854.
The small though valuable collection also consists of a series of globular flutes and little terra-cotta instruments
from all over the world.
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| National Museum of Musical Instruments |
| ROMA p.zza Santa Croce in Gerusalemme,
9/a |
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Opening Hours:
Tue to Sun: 8,30 - 19,30
Closing days:
every Monday, January 1st, Christmas Day
Phone:
06/7014796
Web Site:
www.museostrumentimusicali.it |
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Notes:
The museum gathers outstanding musical instruments belonging to the ancient world (Egyptian, Greek, Roman) , the
western tradition and, non-European cultures (China, Japan, Laos, India, Arabia, Turkey, Persia, America, Africa,
Oceania).
Divided into thematic sections, the museum presents about 3.000 pieces: 840 of them are exposed in the 18 halls
of the first floor, the remaining ones are shared between the second floor and the store. Among which unique examples
of eolian harp (a stringed instrument so constructed as to produce musical sounds when exposed to a current of
air), travel cymbals, sophisticated boites à musique, 16th-century flutes, processional organs decorated
with friezes and architectural motifs of Neapolitan school. Remarkable exhibit: the pianoforte built by Bartolomeo
Cristofori who invented this instruments in 1722 and the crystal harmonica produced by Benjamin Franklin in the
19th-century.
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| The Educational Museum of Musical Instruments |
| CREMONA Palazzo Raimondi, Scuola Internazionale
di Liuteria, c.so Garibaldi, 178 |
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Notes:
This museum is located in the premises of the school for stringed instruments' makers; it displays musical instruments
made by the students (violins, violas and cellos) and replicas of old instruments. A video illustrates the variuous
phases of construction of a musical instruments.
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| Museum Stradivariano |
| CREMONA Via Ugolani Dati 4 |
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Opening Hours:
Tue to Sat: 9:00 - 18:00
Sundays and holidays:
10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday
Phone:
0372 407770
Web Site:
museum page |
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Notes:
In 1893 was accepted by the city of Cremona, the donation of John the Baptist Cerani, which contains some artefacts
belonged to Antonio Stradivari.
The most relevant Museum is, however, formed from material from the laboratory of the great Cremonese violin-maker,
sold by the heirs of a Stradivari Ignatius Alessandro Cozio count of Salabue (1755 - 1840), considered at that
time, the largest collector of instruments arch and expert in this field, and noted in 1920, the figure of centomilalire
from Bologna maker Giuseppe Fiorini that gives it in 1930 to the Museum of Cremona.
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| Museum of Musical Instruments |
| FLORENCE Galleria dell'Accademia - Via
Ricasoli 58/60 |
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Opening Hours:
Tuesday to Sunday, 8,15 – 15,50
Closing days:
Monday, New Year’s Day, May 1st, Christmas Day
Web Site:
museum
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Notes:
Installed in the Palazzo Vecchio, the L. Cherubini Museum of the Conservatory is a valuable collection of musical
instruments, it was began in the 17c. by Ferdinando de' Medici and was consequently enriched and enlarged. Lutes,
cymbals, wind-instruments, violins and violas (such prestigious names as Amati and Stradivari are present) of various
centuries. In addition, the first pianos of Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-172), the "inventor" of this
instrument, who attended the Florentine court of Ferdinando de' Medici from 1711 onwards.
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