Royal Academy of Music's museum (The York Gate Collections) , London

The Royal Academy of Music's museum, also known as the York Gate Collections, is a museum of musical instruments and artefacts and research centre of the Royal Academy of Music.

The galleries display materials from the Academy’s collections of instruments, archives, manuscripts and images. The highlights of the collections include Cremonese stringed instruments dated between 1650 and 1740, a selection of historical English pianos from 1790 to 1850, from the famous Mobbs Collection.

The Academy houses original manuscripts by Purcell, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Brahms, Sullivan and Vaughan Williams, musical memorabilia and other exhibits.

The Academy holds a collection of more than 200 stringed instruments from the violin family. Items from the working collections of famous musicians associated with the Academy include batons, a stopwatch and scores owned by Sir Henry Wood, percussion instruments selected and played by James Blades and the restored Alexander horn which was played by Dennis Brain, damaged in the crash which killed him, and subsequently restored by Paxman of London.

Opening Times

11.30am–5.30pm Monday to Friday
12pm–4pm Saturday

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Disabled Facilities

Ramped access via the side entrance. Staff are available throughout the museum if assistance is required. There are accessible toilets on each floor in the museum building.

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Telephone: 0207 873 7373
Email: f.hymns@ram.ac.uk

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