The Museum of Musical Instruments of the National Institute for Music Research (Musikinstrumenten-Museum des Staatlichen Instituts für Musikforschung) collects and displays instruments of European art music (“Kunstmusik”) from the 16th century to the present and allows visitors to hear them played in concerts and tours. Roughly 800 of the 3,000 or so instruments drawn from the collection founded in 1888 are on display.
One unique highlight is the Naumburger wind instrument collection, a nearly complete range of instruments originating from a central German city pipers group from 1600. Included in this collection are early harpsichords and spinets, some from the Ruckers family workshop, and the famous Bach cembalo and its replica. Visitors can see a number of delightful items, including stringed instruments from European masters such as Stradivarius, Gagliano, Stainer and Krouchdaler, woodwind instruments from Hotteterre, Denner, Quantz and others, a portable harpsichord belonging to Queen Sophie-Charlotte of Prussia, transverse flutes belonging to Friedrich II, Carl Maria von Weber's pianoforte, an English church organ from John Gray's workshop and Europe's largest cinema and theatre organ, the four-manual “Mighty Wurlitzer”, which is played regularly in concerts.
- Monday closed
- Tuesday 09:00 - 13:00
- Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
- Thursday 09:00 - 20:00
- Friday 09:00 - 17:00
- Saturday-Sunday 10:00 - 17:00
Last entry
30 Min. vor Schließung
On Sundays when concerts in the Early Music Live series take place, the museum only opens at 1 pm.
- 1. May 2025 10:00 - 17:00
- 8. May 2025 10:00 - 17:00
- 29. May 2025 10:00 - 17:00
- 8. June 2025 10:00 - 17:00
- 9. June 2025 closed
- 3. October 2025 10:00 - 17:00
- 24. December 2025 closed
- 25. December 2025 10:00 - 17:00
- 26. December 2025 10:00 - 17:00
- 31. December 2025 closed
- 1. January 2026 10:00 - 17:00
Ben-Gurion-Straße, 10785 Berlin
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+49 (30) 254 81-178
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Admission price 10,00 €
Reduced price 5,00 €
Children under 18 have free admission.
Exhibitions
Events
Museum of Musical Instruments
Jour Fixe - Music in the afternoon
Young artists introduce themselves
Concert
Museum of Musical Instruments
Highlights of the MIM collection
Public guided tour with sound samples
Guided Tour
Museum of Musical Instruments
The Mighty Wurlitzer Organ
Demonstration and short concert
Concert, Miscellaneous
Museum of Musical Instruments
MIM inside - Viaggio in Italia
with Emanuele Marconi, Director of the Museum of Musical Instruments (Musikinstrumenten-Museum). In Italian
Guided Tour
Museum of Musical Instruments
Try it!
Getting to know musical instruments for children and families
Workshop
Museum of Musical Instruments
Hitchcock's birds in the strawberry field
Guided tour of the electronic musical instruments in the MIM: from the trautonium to the Mellotron
Guided Tour
Museum of Musical Instruments
Sing und Kling - Tour for the "Year of the Voice"
Hands-on tour
Guided Tour
Museum of Musical Instruments
International Museum Day 2025 at the MIM
Can you still hear or can you already feel? International Museum Day at the MIM is all about sound
Guided Tour, Concert, Workshop
Museum of Musical Instruments
Jazz at the MIM
Stars and newcomers of the Berlin jazz scene as guests at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum
Concert
Museum of Musical Instruments
Listen up!
Guided tour through the acoustics rooms of the State Institute for Music Research
Guided Tour
Museum of Musical Instruments
Sound Spaces: Heaven and Hell
Arabic music meets early music, from Al Arabi's “Night Journey” to Dante's “Divine Comedy”. With the Lux Orientis Ensemble
Concert, Lecture, talk
Museum of Musical Instruments
Sound Spaces: Fortune infortune fort une
Music at the court of Margaret of Austria. With the Early Music Ensemble Titans Rising
Concert, Lecture, talk
Museum of Musical Instruments
Sound Spaces: Retrotonik
The future of electronic music? With HAINBACH, internationally acclaimed composer of experimental electronic music from Berlin
Concert, Lecture, talk
Museum of Musical Instruments
Sound Spaces: Intimate Opera
3 listening situations, 3 instruments and English opera melodies
Concert, Lecture, talk
Museum of Musical Instruments
Sound Spaces: The Unknown Bach
Portrait concert on Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach with Ricardo Magnus and ensembl
Concert, Lecture, talk
Digital
COLLECTION ONLINE
Online collections database SMB-digital
Tickets
Admission price
10,00 €
Reduced price
5,00 €
Children under 18 have free admission.
Yearly ticket
Click here for information about Yearly ticket.
Member of Museumspass Berlin
Booking Telephone
+49 (30) 254 81-139
Services
- Cafe
- Library
- Archive
Accessibility
Audioguides
In German, English.
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