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House of Music
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House of Music

📍 Seilerstätte 30, Wien, 1010🏗 2000-01-01

The House of Music, or Haus der Musik, opened in 2000 as Austria’s first museum devoted to the history of sound and music. Housed in the Palace of Archduke Charles—an important setting within Vienna’s Historic Centre, inscribed by UNESCO in 2001—it connects today’s listening culture to a much older imperial world. Inside its exhibition space of 54,000 sq. ft., interactive, hi-tech and multimedia presentations trace music from the earliest use of instruments to the soundscape of the present. The project was shaped by a wide coalition: four Austrian universities, two foreign university institutes, and a team of musicians, music theorists, artists, sound technicians, architects, and students. …

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