Museum of Instruments at the Royal College of Music
The Museum is regarded as a conservatoire which was founded in 1882 by royal charter.
The Royal College of Music conducts training programs from undergraduate level to the doctoral level and they provide the trainings on performance, conducing, composition, music theory and history like all the aspects of the Western Art.
The museum can be considered as one of the four conservatories of the Associated Board of the Royal College of Music.
The collection of the Museum of Instruments at the Royal College of Museum consists of more than 1000 instruments like contrabassophon, division viol and serpent, plus trombones played by Elgar and Holst, and also the anonymous clavicytherium which was believed as the earliest surviving string keyboard instrument.
Apart from that, the collection highlights the oil paintings of Haydn, Boyce and Farinelli, manuscripts, photographs, early printed edition, letters like objects.
Price
Free to enter the museum.
For the Group visits £5 cost per person.
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Museum of Instruments at the Royal College of Music is closed from 11 December 2015 and it will reopen in 2019.
Address
Royal College of Music
Prince Consort Road
London
SW7 2BS
Web Site
www.rcm.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 (0)20 7589 3643
