Museum of Instruments, London

Part of the Royal College of Music, the Museum of Instruments, forms part of the Centre for Performance History, and houses an internationally renowned collection of over 800 instruments and accessories from 1480 to the present. This includes 700 European, keyboard, stringed and wind insturments and 100 Asian and African instruments.

Gifts since the foundation of the College in 1883 include important collections from the Rajah Sir Sorindro Mohun Tagore (1884), the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII (1886), Sir George Donaldson (1894), A.J. Hipkins (1911), E.A.K. Ridley (1968), Geoffrey Hartley (1985), Amaryllis Fleming (2002), Richard Walton (2003) and Crispian Steele-Perkins (2003).

Opening Times

Please note that the Museum of Instruments is currently closed for refurbishment and will reopen to the public on 13 September 2011.

Tuesdays to Fridays from 11.30am to 4.30pm (closed for Christmas and Easter vacations)

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Admission is free

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