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Orgelkonzert im MIM
(c) SPK/photothek.net/Thomas Trutschel
Orgelkonzert im MIM
Eingang des Musikinstrumenten-Museums von der Ben Gurion Straße aus
(c) SIMPK / Christian Elsner
Eingang des Musikinstrumenten-Museums von der Ben Gurion Straße aus
Musikinstrumenten-Museum Innenraum Panorama
(c) Musikinstrumenten-Museum SPK Anne-Katrin Breitenborn
Kinder im MIM
(c) SPK/photothek.net/Thomas Trutschel
Kinder im MIM
Ausstellungsraum des MIM
(c) SIMPK / Anne-Katrin Breitenborn
Ausstellungsraum des MIM
Musikinstrumenten-Museum, Wurlitzer Orgel
Foto: bbr
Musikinstrumenten-Museum, Eingang
Foto: bbr
Stummfilmnacht im MIM
(c) SIMPK / Anne-Katrin Breitenborn
Stummfilmnacht im MIM

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.
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Opening hours,
  • 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. January 2025 10:00 - 17:00
  • 24. December closed
  • 25. December 10:00 - 17:00
  • 26. December 10:00 - 17:00
  • 31. December closed

Location,

Ben-Gurion-Straße, 10785 Berlin

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Telephone,

+49 (30) 254 81-178

Fax,

+49 (30) 254 81-172

Website,

www.simpk.de

Email,

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Prices,

Admission price 10,00 €

Reduced price 5,00 €

Children under 18 have free admission.

Exhibitions

Viola da Gamba by Gregorius Karpp, Königsberg 1693 (detail)
Foto: Anne-Katrin Breitenborn
Viola da Gamba by Gregorius Karpp, Königsberg 1693 (detail)

Display collection of the Berlin Museum of Musical Instruments
Bass tuba by Johann Gottfried Moritz, Berlin, 1839
(c) Schnepp Renou
Bass tuba by Johann Gottfried Moritz, Berlin, 1839

Low brass

A brief history of low brass instruments
Electronic organ world champion TO 200/5, 1970, VEB Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke
SIMPK/Foto: Anne-Katrin Breitenborn
Electronic organ world champion TO 200/5, 1970, VEB Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke

Instrument making in two German republics

Spotlight exhibition on instrument making during the division of Germany

Events

A look inside a Steinway grand piano
SPK/photothek.de/Thomas Trutschel
A look inside a Steinway grand piano

Museum of Musical Instruments

Jour Fixe - Music in the afternoon

Young artists introduce themselves

Concert
Orgeln, Streich- und Tasteninstrumente
SPK/photothek.net/Thomas Trutschel
Organs, string and keyboard instruments

Museum of Musical Instruments

Public tours with sound samples

Guided Tour
Hannes Zerbe Jazz Orchestra Berlin at Jazz im MIM
(c) SIMPK
Hannes Zerbe Jazz Orchestra Berlin at Jazz im MIM

Museum of Musical Instruments

Jazz at the MIM

Stars and newcomers of the Berlin jazz scene as guests at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum

Concert
Neubau Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung am Kulturforum, Bauphase August 1980
(c) Bildarchiv SIMPK
Neubau Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung am Kulturforum, Bauphase August 1980

Museum of Musical Instruments

40 years of SIM at the Kulturforum

The Berlin Cultural Forum as a sound space

Miscellaneous
Roland Szentpáli
(c) Balázs Szecsődi und Zsófia Raffay
Roland Szentpáli

Museum of Musical Instruments

Early Music Live: Low Brass. From Serpent to Tuba and Twoba

Talk concert with tuba player Roland Szentpáli on the ‘Year of the Tuba 2024’. As part of the ‘40 years of SIM at the Kulturforum’ events

Concert
Scene photo from "Ihr dunkler Punkt"
Quelle: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Wiesbaden
Scene photo from the silent movie "Ihr dunkler Punkt"

Museum of Musical Instruments

Wednesday Night Cinema: Ihr dunkler Punkt

Silent film comedy from 1928 with Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch, accompanied live on the Mighty Wurlitzer theatre organ by Anna Vavilkina.

Film, Concert
(c) Landesmusikrat Berlin e.V.

Museum of Musical Instruments

Tuba Christmas Concert

With the Duo Silver Tubes and the Berlin Tubes Tuba Quartet

Concert
Console of the Mighty Wurlitzer organ
(c) SIMPK/Anne-Katrin Breitenborn
Console of the Mighty Wurlitzer organ

Museum of Musical Instruments

The Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organ

Demonstration and short concert

Concert, Miscellaneous
Orgelpositiv, Deutschland um 1600
(c) SIMPK / Foto: Anne-Katrin Breitenborn
Bemalter Prospekt eines Orgelpositivs, Deutschland um 1600

Museum of Musical Instruments

Organs in the MIM

Thematic tour from the shelf to the church organ

Guided Tour
View into the Musikinstrumenten-Museum
(c) SIMPK / Foto: Anne-Katrin Breitenborn
View into the Musikinstrumenten-Museum

Museum of Musical Instruments

MIM inside

Employees of the Musikinstrumenten-Museum guide you through the collection

Guided Tour
Diffusoren im Hallraum des Staatlichen Instituts für Musikforschung
(c) SIMPK / Foto: Anne-Katrin Breitenborn
Hängende gebogene Platten

Museum of Musical Instruments

Listen up!

Guided tour through the acoustics rooms of the State Institute for Music Research

Guided Tour

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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