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Museo degli Strumenti Musicali
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Museo degli Strumenti Musicali

📍 Piazza Castello, Milano, 20121

In the Sforza Castle complex, the Museo degli Strumenti Musicali turns the rooms of power into a study of sound: it exhibits over 700 musical instruments spanning the fifteenth to twentieth centuries. The collection leans into Lombardy, with particular attention to plucked instruments and Lombard and Cremonese violins, alongside hunting horns and a wide range of woodwinds—flutes, oboes, clarinets, and English horns—plus bassoons, pianos, and even some ancient organs. What makes the museum especially distinctive is its reach beyond the workshop tradition. It displays the equipment of the former *Studio di fonologia musicale di Radio Milano*, linking regional craftsmanship to twentieth-century experiments in recorded and electronic sound. …

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