Berlin Musical Instrument Museum
The Berlin Musical Instrument Museum—Musikinstrumenten-Museum Berlin—was founded in 1888 and it still anchors the Kulturforum’s story of how music objects became serious research material. Its collection now holds over 3,500 instruments from the 16th century onward, and it links royal court life, scholarship, and even diplomacy through objects such as a portable harpsichord once owned by Prussia’s Queen Sophie Charlotte, flutes tied to Frederick the Great, and Benjamin Franklin’s glass harmonica. The museum’s holdings began with a collection assembled by Philipp Spitta and Joseph Joachim, and thirty-four instruments from the Museum of Decorative Arts—things once heard at the Prussian state court—formed the first core. …
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