Musée de la musique

The Musée de la Musique de la Philharmonie de Paris is a French museum in Paris, inaugurated in 1997. It has a collection of several thousand instruments and objets d'art, inherited from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, which traces the history of Western music, both learned and popular, from the 16th century onwards, and offers an overview of the world's principal musical styles. Located in the Villette district, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, the museum and media library occupy the garden wing of the "Philharmonie 2" building, formerly the Cité de la Musique⁣, built by Christian de Portzamparc, as part of the Philharmonie de Paris. In. Collections Museum The museum has a collection of more than 8,000 instruments and art objects. In 2015, the museum itinerary defined five chapters to illustrate the main moments in the history of music since the Baroque period. Other Paris museums complement the museum's collections, depending on their specialization, such as the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac and its 9,128 non-European musical instruments, and the popular music instruments conserved at the MuCEM . To a lesser extent, the Musée de l'Armée also owns 349 military musical instruments, some 60 of which are displayed in.