Musikinstrumentenmuseum

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With around 3,500 instruments, the Musikinstrumenten-Museum Berlin has one of the largest and most representative collections of musical instruments in Germany. It has been located at Tiergartenstraße 1 in the center of Berlin, not far from Potsdamer Platz in the Tiergarten district, since 1984.HistoryThe museum began in January 1888 as a "collection of old musical instruments" by Philipp Spitta and Joseph Joachim at the Royal Academic College of Music in Berlin. The city of Berlin acquired the first 240 antique musical instruments from the instrument collection of the Leipzig music publisher Paul de Wit. These included a double-manual harpsichord from the workshop of Gottfried Silbermann, a pair of timpani from a Saxon church and a rauschpfeife, while other exhibits came from the Museum of Decorative Arts. In addition to the actual collection, the museum also had a teaching and entertainment mission; among other things, music students were to have the opportunity to listen to early music with the best possible sound. This teaching mission led to the first institute becoming a municipal public house on February 14, 1893. There was no celebration at this opening, and the MIM was initially located on the second floor of the old Berlin Bauakademie. This content has been machine translated.