The Glinka Museum of Musical Culture celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. There are, of course, disagreements among experts regarding the dating of its creation: can the museum be considered a successor to the museum of N.G. Rubinstein at the Moscow Conservatory or was it actually created during Soviet times? But musicians, music lovers and just visitors are pleased by the very fact of the existence of a museum of musical culture.
The museum is classified as a particularly valuable object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation, its funds include about a million storage units, and the museum includes several buildings in Moscow, concert and exhibition halls. The museum has recently also included the State Collection of Musical Instruments.
And now - not about the anniversary. Tomorrow the museum will be closed to visitors - the website states that for technical reasons. In fact, it is simply rented out for a corporate amateur concert of a private school of the Russian Pension Fund. Concerts in the music museum, including children's, are no exception, but its usual activity, and visitors always have the opportunity to get acquainted with the exhibition while there is a concert in the hall. Why it was necessary to close the museum for the whole day for the children's studio concert, one can only guess.
In all likelihood, another building managed by the Glinka Museum will soon be closed - the house on Kudrinskaya Square No. 46, where P.I. lived. Tchaikovsky, and where the museum bearing his name is now located. The building is planned to be transferred to the center for the cultural and historical heritage of Rostropovich and Vishnevskaya. The musical community is perplexed - Rostropovich, of course, is a great cellist, but why evict Pyotr Ilyich or reduce him to the position of a tenant in the Rostropovich center? The musicians are collecting signatures with an open appeal to Olga Rostropovich with a request to find another location for her foundation. http://www.onlinepetition.ru/Tchaikovsky/petition.html
And many more questions are raised by the activities of the current director of the museum M.A. Bryzgalov, a trumpeter by training and former Minister of Culture of the Saratov Region. In Saratov, Mikhail Arkadyevich did not show himself to be anything special in the creative field, but he showed himself to be an energetic leader, tirelessly reorganizing the sphere entrusted to him. But for some reason the Saratov Philharmonic burned down. It is difficult to understand what motives guided the Federal Agency for Culture in 2008 when it entrusted this honored figure with the most valuable funds of the museum and the treasures of the State Collection of Musical Instruments, which became part of the museum in recent years. Apparently, based on the successful experience of Mr. Bryzgalov’s tenure at the head of Saratov culture, Mr. Shvydkoy was absolutely confident that the creations of Amati, Stradivari, Guarneri and other priceless treasures of world and domestic musical culture would fall into the reliable hands of a trusted person.
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Currently, the museum's scientific, educational and exhibition departments have been liquidated, and leading employees - art historians with conservatory education and academic degrees - have been fired. The permanent exhibition dedicated to the history of Russian music has been dismantled. There is an advertisement on the website asking for employees. Education not lower than secondary, citizenship of the Russian Federation. http://www.glinka.museum/about/vacancies/php
Is it really a waste of time for the museum?
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All-Russian Museum Association of Musical Culture named after. M. I. Glinka (VMOMC named after M. I. Glinka)- a museum association that includes branches throughout Moscow. Postal address: 125047, Moscow, Fadeeva street, no.4.
The museum is a complex of a main building and several branches that serve as repositories of valuable exhibits and a research and educational institution on musical culture.
For a long time, 1938-1984, the director of the museum was singer and musicologist Ekaterina Nikolaevna Alekseeva.
At the beginning of 1995, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the Museum was included in the State Code of Especially Valuable Objects of the Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of the Russian Federation.
Based on the order of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation No. 921 dated September 9, 2011, the name of the State Central Museum of Musical Culture named after M.I. Glinka changed to ALL-RUSSIAN MUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF MUSICAL CULTURE named after M.I. Glinka
History of the museum's creation
The history of the museum is outlined on its official website. The foundations of the museum were laid by the Moscow Conservatory, where manuscripts, musical notations, scores, personal belongings of musicians, their musical instruments, and photographs from musical performances were gradually accumulated over many years. After the death of her husband, the wife of Prince V.F. Odoevsky donated his extensive library, an archive with recordings of folk songs, materials on ancient Russian chants, music theory, and a collection of musical instruments, including an untempered grand piano commissioned by the prince. At the end of the 1880s, musical instruments of the peoples of Central Asia and Kazakhstan were purchased from A.F. Eichhorn, who served as bandmaster of Russian military bands in Tashkent in 1870-1883. Gradually, an extensive fund was assembled, growing more and more.
Unique items and documents required special storage. From these and other exhibits of the conservatory, the N. G. Rubinstein Museum at the Moscow Conservatory was inaugurated in March 1912. The name of Nikolai Grigorievich Rubinstein was given to the museum not by chance - he was a major Russian musician, founder of the Moscow Conservatory and its first director.
Since the late 1930s, so many funds have accumulated that their thorough systematization and classification has already been required.
Even during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Conservatory Museum was not evacuated and continued to operate.
The museum was attached to the conservatory for many years, gaining independence in 1943 and receiving a new name: the State Central Museum of Musical Culture. A few years later, in 1954, in connection with the 150th anniversary of the birth of M. I. Glinka, the museum was named after him.
In 1964, the Museum of Musical Culture was located in the Troyekurov Chambers (Georgievsky Lane, 4), where it existed until 1980, when the construction of a new museum building with a concert hall was completed, in which an organ from the German company Schuke (Potsdam) was installed.
Since 1985, the museum began to open permanent exhibitions.
Branches
Currently the museum has six branches:
Funds
The museum currently has the world's largest collection of musical culture, numbering about 1,000,000 items and covering all components of the concept of “musical culture.” These are author's manuscripts, and archives of musicians from different times, and autographs, and photographs of musical figures - both portraits and scenes from performances, - and musical instruments of various eras, and audio and video recordings of musical works of all types and genres, from classical to folk and modern rhythmic - in the section of photographic documents there are currently about 89,000 storage units. The first Russian gramophone records (about 60,000 storage units), releases of the companies “Gramophone”, “Zonofon”, “Pate”, “Metropol”, and publications of the Soviet period (company “Melodiya”), and leading foreign companies are also stored here.
Many composers donated manuscripts of their works to the Museum, among them S. V. Rachmaninov, A. K. Glazunov, A. T. Grechaninov, D. D. Shostakovich and others. These unique documents are preserved, accessible, and can be seen.
In addition, the museum has a research department called “We are looking for...”, which searches for missing manuscripts, scores and everything related to music.
The museum has a recording studio equipped with modern equipment and used by musicians of various genres.
Scientific and educational activities
Research staff conduct more than 20 subscription series of concerts, lectures, concerts, and educational lectures for visitors of all ages and levels of musical knowledge. There is a separate program for the musical development of children (lecture series with musical inserts, demonstration of musical instruments, a story about their origin and history). A series of concert programs under the general title “For the whole family” is being developed.
Thematic exhibitions are shown not only in the halls of the hospital, but also in other cities of the country and abroad.
The museum publishes musical and text publications, holds musical concerts, and works on publishing musical and scientific research.
The museum organizes listening to recordings of the music library, holds musical concerts, exhibitions, expositions, lectures, and since 2007 there has been a Moscow Opera Club, which first opened in November 1989 at the Cinema Museum, then moved to the A. A. Bakhrushin Theater Museum , and since 2007 has firmly established itself in the M. I. Glinka Museum of Musical Culture. The Opera Club's programs are dedicated to a specific topic: the biography of a composer or singer, a musical direction or an opera school. The Opera Club also hosts seminars with the participation of foreign performers, musicians and musicologists.
As part of the International Competition named after. P.I. Tchaikovsky Museum hosts International Violin Making Competitions every four years.
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Reviews about the Museum of Musical Culture named after. M. I. Glinka
Lyudmila Milkina 01/03/2017 at 18:39
I came to this museum by accident: I was walking down the street and saw a bus stop with that name. I think it means it’s somewhere nearby, I found the museum and didn’t regret it. I attended three Exhibitions: “Sound and...man, the universe, play”, musical instruments of different times and peoples, and “Dances of buffoons” with drawings by B. Messerer. First I went to an interactive exhibition about sounds. It was very interesting there for both children and adults. You could listen to different sounds, you could create different sounds, see how they affect nature and humans, and much, much more that we don’t know, but which is very interesting to find out. The exhibition of instruments from different peoples and times in general stunned me with the number and variety of these instruments; some instruments are of such a unique shape that it is unclear how they are played and what sounds they make. And here, unfortunately, I again encountered the disease of all our museums: the inscriptions near the exhibits are academically dry and do not explain anything about them: the name, the date of manufacture, even the country where it is from is not always indicated. There are, of course, banners with long, boring texts that no one reads. People come to the museum to see! It would be very cool if at least the most unusual instruments had pictures (photos, drawings) from which one could understand how they are played, and if one could also listen to their sound, it would be simply fantastic. By the way, the black letters on the glass are practically invisible, so even those inscriptions that are there are not readable. This museum also hosts various concerts. I took a ticket for one of them. I hope to become a regular visitor to this museum. Judge the exhibition of B. Messerer's drawings from my photos.
Lyudmila Milkina 01/03/2017 at 18:32
I came to this museum by accident: I was walking down the street and saw a bus stop with that name. I think it means it’s somewhere nearby, I found the museum and didn’t regret it. I attended three Exhibitions: “Sound and...man, the universe, play”, musical instruments of different times and peoples, and “Dances of buffoons” with drawings by B. Messerer. First I went to an interactive exhibition about sounds. It was very interesting there for both children and adults. You could listen to different sounds, you could create different sounds, see how they affect nature and humans, and much, much more that we don’t know, but which is very interesting to find out. The exhibition of instruments from different peoples and times in general stunned me with the number and variety of these instruments; some instruments are of such a unique shape that it is unclear how they are played and what sounds they make. And here, unfortunately, I again encountered the disease of all our museums: the inscriptions near the exhibits are academically dry and do not explain anything about them: the name, the date of manufacture, even the country where it is from is not always indicated. There are, of course, banners with long, boring texts that no one reads. People come to the museum to see! It would be very cool if at least the most unusual instruments had pictures (photos, drawings) from which one could understand how they are played, and if one could also listen to their sound, it would be simply fantastic. By the way, the black letters on the glass are practically invisible, so even those inscriptions that are there are not readable. This museum also hosts various concerts. I took a ticket for one of them. I hope to become a regular visitor to this museum.
The Glinka Museum, or the Central Museum of Musical Culture, displays a huge collection of instruments from all eras and peoples, the number of exhibits of which approaches a thousand. From historical rarities to modern sound extraction devices can be seen in this extensive collection. The main building of the museum association was built specifically for this repository, the basis of which was made up of exhibits collected by enthusiasts from the Moscow Conservatory since its founding in 1866.
The lobby of the Glinka Museum greets visitors with a bust of the great composer, music and text quotes from the author of the Patriotic Song, which for some time was the Russian anthem. The notes of this work are accompanied by an unofficial text, which, together with the music, claimed the status of a state symbol back in tsarist times.
Here visitors get acquainted with announcements of events, leave their outerwear, and purchase entrance tickets to the permanent exhibition or thematic exhibitions. The main permanent exhibition is located on the 2nd floor; temporary shows on various topics are organized on the 3rd floor.
The lobby houses one of the notable exhibits, a recent acquisition of the Glinka Museum - a European orchestra. This mechanical instrument recreates the sound of an instrumental orchestra; such devices have been used in a number of European countries as musical accompaniment to dance events.
Musical instruments located on the front side of a kind of orchestra produce their characteristic sounds, while accordions even demonstrate the movements of bellows. In Russia, such instruments were not widespread, which makes getting to know the orchestra more interesting for our lovers of musical wonders.
The second floor, which houses the main exhibition of the Glinka Museum, begins with a spacious hall where various exhibitions dedicated to musical culture are held. The main decoration of the room is a picturesque stained glass window, which is much larger in size from the outside of the building.
A massive staircase leads to the 3rd floor for visiting thematic temporary exhibitions. The composition of several bells recalls the role of church bells both in the life of the Russian people and in Glinka’s musical passions.
Also in the hall there is an organ made by the German master Ladegast, which was owned since 1868 by a descendant of the Khludov merchant family, the only surviving product of this master. Donated to the Moscow Conservatory and changing through several other owners, the instrument was practically ruined.
The difficult restoration of the organ's interior was carried out in 1998 by Vilnius organ builders under the leadership of Guchas. Now this instrument is positioned as the oldest organ in Russia that has remained functional, and it is actually used during organ concerts organized by the Glinka Museum.
The permanent exhibition of the Glinka Museum, telling about the history of the origin and wide variety of musical instruments of the peoples of the world, is located in five halls on the second floor. They are clearly distinguished from each other by different colors of the background of the shop windows. The division of the halls representing the most ancient known instruments is made on a geographical basis. A separate hall is allocated to European exhibits, divided by country; the remaining continents are divided inside another hall, with expositions of individual countries highlighted.
Further halls present instruments that differ in their belonging to wind or symphonic instruments, percussion and keyboards. Mechanical and electronic musical instruments, devices for recording sound and playing it from various media are highlighted.
Vintage European musical instruments
How correct this choice of the principle of demonstrating musical instruments is is for professionals to understand, but the differences in the method of sound extraction seem more fundamental and obvious than national and state ones. After all, the shape of the pipe, no matter how great the differences, is still recognizable.
The drum or other percussion instruments cannot be confused with anything else. And finding out information about the place of origin of the exhibit, its attribution to a certain type of musical instrument and other details is still carried out by most visitors using explanatory inscriptions.
Russian folk musical instruments are collected in the Glinka Museum in a large assortment and variety of species. Here are the instruments of other peoples inhabiting the national republics within the Russian Federation. Percussion instruments are widely represented - after all, they use the simplest but most varied method of producing sounds, from simple collisions of objects, for which even wooden spoons are used, to rattles of various designs and designs.
Naturally, our ancestors had horns made of cow horns and pipes made of wood. Craftsmen could extract sounds even from a saw blade and a scythe blade, but this is rather in the realm of musical eccentricity. The main stringed instrument of the Russian people is the gusli, used in Rus' since time immemorial. The balalaika is also a plucked string instrument; despite the simplicity of the device, virtuosos perform any melodies on them. Finally, the Russian accordion has been the main folk instrument for a long time
Stringed instruments of different nations are visually similar, but the progenitor of all stringed instruments, the Scythian harp, differs from its other relatives. It does not yet have a resonating body and neck, and a common feature is the way it produces sounds by plucking the strings with your fingers.
Plucked string instruments have evolved from the ancient lyre and harp to the lute, domra, mandolin, balalaika and guitar, which has retained its greatest popularity to this day. Harpsichords, pianos and grand pianos are also related to plucked string instruments that impact the strings, for which keys with a drive system were invented.
In the updated exhibition, the European section has been replenished with instruments of Belarusians and Ukrainians, Moldovans and the Baltic peoples. As before, instruments from the Mediterranean and Scandinavian countries, Central and Eastern Europe are widely represented. String instruments are exhibited both plucked and bowed, with different shapes of the resonating body and bow structure. The simplest xylophones represent a group of percussion instruments.
There are several variations of bagpipes that are generally considered Scottish and Irish traditional instruments. This is true, but a similar device with air bellows and tubes with reed formation of sounds was also used by other peoples. These are the French musette, the Portuguese gaita, the duda and the dudeisac of Eastern Europe.
Musical instruments of eastern countries
The countries of the East were the first to invent bows for extracting sounds from stretched strings; historians consider musicians who lived in the territory of present-day Uzbekistan to be the pioneers. From here bows came to China and India, to Arab countries and from them to the Pyrenees. A shepherd's violin with three strings is a rabel, as well as a viol with a large number of strings. The latter were later replaced by violins and their larger relatives. Eastern string instruments often feature longer necks, although there are also designs with short ones.
The wind and percussion instruments of eastern peoples are very diverse. Bamboo trunks and other hollow plant stems were often used for wind instruments. Percussion instruments were also made from tree trunks by hollowing out the core. Tanned animal skins were also used, stretched over frames made of various materials. In addition to stationary drums, hand drums such as tambourines, sometimes supplemented with bells, were popular.
The Japanese originality of national clothing is much more striking than the differences between Japanese musical instruments and all others. Japanese percussion instruments were usually placed on shaped stands; different materials were used for the bodies, even porcelain and other ceramics. String and wind instruments have forms that are close to traditional for other peoples, and it is difficult to invent something different in these areas.
Eastern countries used a variety of materials to make musical instruments, from stone, wood and metal to silk, leather and even hollowed out pumpkin shells. Local craftsmen paid special attention to the external design of their products and their decorative appeal.
Paintings and carvings, traditional for every nation, also decorated musical instruments; it is by these elements that it is easiest to identify xylophones, drums and other instruments from those belonging to the culture of other countries.
Ancient violin workshop in the Glinka Museum
The creation of violins and other bowed instruments has been around for a long time and is now a highly complex task. Preparation of wood for various parts and parts of tools required knowledge of many technological operations - cutting and drilling, measurements and various methods of joining parts. The tools and equipment necessary for these works are presented on the violin maker’s workbench in the recreated interior of a musical instrument making workshop.
Violin makers could make a product of any size, from a violin and viola to a cello and a giant double bass. The violin could also be either classic sizes or half or even four times smaller.
In the room restored in the Glinka Museum, you can see all the stages of making instruments, from a wooden board to a finished violin or cello. You can examine all the components - the front and back soundboard and the shell connecting them, the neck with the underneck and the bridge for laying the strings.
Classical musical instruments of the Glinka Museum
Instruments used by modern musicians are presented to visitors of the Glinka Museum in several exhibitions. Components of symphony and brass orchestras, accessories of musical ensembles of various compositions are exhibited. Strings - bows and keyboards are adjacent to wind, wood and brass.
One of the museum corners contains genuine treasures - a concert harp and a collectible piano for home use. The perfectly balanced harp is stable on its small base, the resonator made of valuable wood is in harmony with the gilding of the column and neck, the shape of which is especially whimsical and attractive.
Showcases of bowed instruments are located on either side of the painting depicting the greatest master of the Genoese violin, Niccolo Paganini. It was this violinist and composer who developed the technique of playing the violin, which has remained almost unchanged to this day.
In addition to the violin, Paganini also played the mandolin and guitar impeccably. The great performer's own compositions, written for both violin and guitar, are popular. The world's most popular violin competition is held annually in Paganini's homeland, Genoa, Italy.
The showcase of classical wind instruments shows them in order of increasing size, with varieties of wooden instruments displayed first, followed by brass instruments. This division has been preserved since ancient times and now does not correspond to reality - the wooden flutes, clarinets, oboes and bassoons included in the group of wooden ones can be made not only from wood. They can be plastic or metal, flutes can even be glass. Classified by musicologists as a wooden saxophone based on its operating principle, which had no ancient analogues, it was always made of metal.
On the other hand, copper instruments were made only from this metal only at the dawn of the development of metallurgy; now copper alloys or silver are used. The brass instrument group includes trumpet, horn, trombone and tuba. Instruments of this series have increasing sizes and complexity of the device. The trombone stands somewhat apart, having a movable slide for smooth changes in pitch.
Almost all wind instruments are included, in addition to brass bands, in symphony orchestras and ensembles. Dixieland and jazz bands also use them.
The combination of stretched strings and percussion mechanisms controlled by a keyboard is characteristic of concert musical instruments, which include pianos, grand pianos and pianos. Some experts consider the grand piano and pianoforte to be varieties of pianos, differing in the horizontal or vertical arrangement of the strings.
Since the middle of the last century, only grand pianos and upright pianos have been produced; traditional pianos, which have less expressive capabilities due to the shorter length of the strings, have become history. Grand pianos are primarily used in concerts as an instrument to accompany vocals or independently, while pianos are used for home or chamber music playing.
The predecessors of today's keyboard instruments, both stringed and reed, are also on display at the Glinka Museum. String instruments include the percussion clavichord and plucked harpsichord, while reed harmoniums are related to harmonicas, button accordions and accordions. The first instrument with air bellows was the table harmonica of Kirchner, a Czech who worked in Russia. Unlike it and the hand instruments we are used to, the bellows of the harmonium were powered by foot pedals.
From hurdy-gurdy to synthesizer
The last hall of the Glinka Museum displays several instruments not included in the ensembles and orchestras, ancient means of reproducing recorded sounds. Unique exhibits are presented here, quite rare in the collections of museums and private individuals. Among them, a barrel organ stands out, which many have heard about, but not all visitors have seen.
The design of the instrument is a small organ; air injection and operation of the sound mechanism are ensured by rotating the handle on the body. Organ organs were used by traveling musicians, and their sounds accompanied the performances of farcical circus performers.
The creation of the first sound recording and reproducing devices has a specific pioneer, he was the famous inventor Edison. The phonograph he designed in 1877 provided the recording and playback of sounds with a sharp needle on a roller wrapped in tin foil or wax-coated paper.
Recording on a flat round record was invented by Berliner; sound was reproduced by devices with an external horn - a gramophone. Devices with a horn hidden in the body were produced by the Pathé company, hence the name gramophone. Further progress in sound recording proceeded quickly: magnetic tapes, laser discs, high-quality digital sound recording.
The rare photoelectronic sound synthesizer ANS, named after the initials of the great composer Scriabin, was invented by the Russian Murzin back in the late 30s of the last century, and was manufactured only in 1963. Viewers of Tarkovsky's science fiction films and Gaidai's Diamond Arm may remember the unusual sounds of this device.
The composer created the music on it without writing notes or involving an orchestra. Synthesizers also developed rapidly, with the invention of transistors they became compact and affordable. Now all musical groups of various genres have synthesizers.
Another notable exhibit of the Glinka Museum was the giant drum kit of the musician and composer, tireless experimenter R. Shafi. Manual control of such a complex complex of drums and drums is clearly impossible,
Shafi invented a unique control pedal, Zmey Gorynych, which, due to the number of tools it can handle, was included in the Guinness Book of Records. There are other interesting exhibits in this section, including personal instruments of famous musicians.
A visit to the Glinka Museum may seem unnecessary after hearing about it, but such an impression is extremely erroneous. There is a lot of interesting things here that are difficult to describe in a quick review; there are new interesting forms of working with visitors. Visiting here is educational and interesting for people with any level of interest and understanding of music; after visiting, this interest will definitely increase.
Over the weekend we managed to visit the Central Museum of Musical Culture named after M.I. Glinka. Museum of Musical Culture named after. M.I. Glinka presents visitors with the richest collection of musical instruments of the peoples of the world and an exhibition on the history of Russian musical culture. This is the largest treasury of monuments of musical culture, which has no analogues in the world.
Museum address: st. Fadeeva, 4
The easiest way to get to the museum is by metro. Arrive at Mayakovskaya station. Exit to the city, take the first car from the center, from the metro to the right and immediately right again to 1st Tverskoy-Yamskaya Lane. Walk along the alley without turning anywhere for literally 5 minutes and you will come across the Central Museum of Musical Culture.
Operating mode:
Monday closed
Tuesday 11:00 - 19:00
Wednesday 11:00 - 19:00
Thursday 12:00 - 21:00
Friday 12:00 - 21:00
Saturday 11:00 - 19:00
Sunday 11:00 - 18:00
Entrance ticket for an adult is 500 rubles, for a child - 175 rubles. This includes a visit to the museum, as well as a visit to the interactive exhibition "SOUND AND..."! I don’t even know what I liked more: the museum or the exhibition:):) Children will definitely like the exhibition more:)
But we will begin our acquaintance with musical culture from the museum, it is located on the second floor. You can take photographs in the museum (for free), but without flash.
An audio guide is provided at the entrance to the museum. It's very convenient! Each display case has sensors that, by pointing at them with an audio guide, you can listen not only to the story of the instrument, but also to its sound.
The exhibition “Musical Instruments of the Peoples of the World” is located in five halls, each of which is made in a special artistic color scheme.
Hall No. 1 – Musical instruments of the peoples of the Russian Federation
Hall No. 2 – Musical instruments of the peoples of Europe.
Hall No. 3 – Musical instruments of the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Hall No. 4 - Musical instruments of the European professional tradition. Instruments of symphony and religious orchestras. Stringed keyboard instruments.
Hall No. 5 – Mechanical musical instruments, sound recording devices of the first half of the 20th century, electric musical instruments.
The collection of musical instruments of the All-Russian Museum Association of Musical Culture named after M.I. Glinka is one of the largest and most significant in the world in terms of its scientific and historical value. The formation of the Museum's collection of musical instruments began in the 80s of the 19th century at the Moscow Conservatory, where musical instruments and documents of famous musical figures were gradually collected, and subsequently the Museum was created.
VARGAN - self-sounding plucked instrument, 1st third of the 20th century
In the display cases you can see outlandish instruments. Collar (necklace for a horse) with a set of bells. Kostroma region, Volosominovo village, 2nd half of the 19th century
The halls have multimedia screens on which you can read about each instrument, as well as listen to its sound.
There are so many instruments presented that the majority, which is approximately 90%;))) You will see for the first time
Tools of Khakassia
Untuvun (Evenki tambourine)
There is also a multimedia screen on which you can take the “Music Expert” quiz :) You need to answer fifteen questions
Musical instruments of Karelia
Russian folk musical instruments designed by V.V. Andreev. Orchestral family of three-string balalaikas
Bayan, master K.A. Klykovsky, Moscow 1915-16, belonged to I.K. Kazakov, donated to the Museum by People's Artist of the USSR Yu.I. Kazakov
Ready-made multi-timbre accordion, master F.A. Figanov, design by Yu.I. Kazakov, Moscow 1962, donated to the Museum by People's Artist of the USSR Yu.I. Kazakov
By the way, even on a day off there are not very many people in the museum
Keyboard gusli. Stringed instrument designed by N.P.Fomin
Stand with musical instruments from Germany, Austria
Kirkincho, plucked string instrument
Chekere, a self-sounding percussion instrument
And in some showcases there are screens that show HOW to play a particular instrument.
The work workshop of E.F. Vitachek is presented. Evgeny Frantsevich Vitachek - violin maker, chief curator of the State Collection of Unique Instruments
Two-manual harmonium. Germany, after 1904 belonged to S.V. Rachmaninov
Harpsichord, master B. Shudy, England 1766
Spinet. Lindholm company, Germany 1965
Large exhibition of wind instruments
Piano-Giraffe (Austria, Vienna, 1st third of the 19th century)
ANS - photoelectronic synthesizer, inventor-designer E.A. Murzin, Moscow 1961-1964.
Giant drum set. R. Shafi drums with built-in microphone, DW USA, 1990s
And we finish inspecting the museum’s exhibition with the Violin of the master A. Stradevari (Italy, Cremona, 1671. Bequeathed to D.F. Oistrakh by Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, a gift from T.I. Oistrakh and I.D. Oistrakh)
After visiting the museum, we went down to the first floor. There is a "Musical Buffet" where we had a snack. I must say that the prices are not inflated!
With renewed vigor, we went to the third floor, where the Interactive Exhibition “SOUND AND... Universe, Man, Game...” is taking place!
What do we know about sound? What properties does it have and how does it affect humans? Nine exhibition halls will introduce you to the fascinating world of sounds, noises and melodies.
The most interesting thing is that you can touch everything and play everything!!!
You can put on headphones and listen to the sounds that surround us, pleasant and unpleasant.
You can drum on pots, buckets and pans :):)
At first glance these are just barrels, but...
but in every barrel the Music of the Capitals sounds :) Every city has its own unique sound. And, having visited it once, it is easy to recognize its “music” even with your eyes closed. Each “barrel” has its own sound of the world capital
You can listen to your neighbors :)) When you come home, it is impossible to remain in silence, because we are surrounded not only by street noise, but also by neighbors. “Child and violin”, “Granny and series”, “man and drill”. You need to put the glass to your ear and find out what is happening on the other side of the wall.
Electromagnetic oscillations are a change in the state of the electromagnetic field propagating in space
Very cool thing :)) the kids liked it
Stereo-trans room. Immerse yourself in the tight embrace of sound, feel it on your skin, see how your body reacts to low frequencies, and don’t be alarmed if what seemed clear begins to blur...
It looks like just a room, but as soon as you enter it, a trance starts playing and the longer you stay in the room, the louder the trance will be :)))
Putting on headphones you can try to guess the emotion
Absolutely everyone can try their hand at playing the violin and the drum set (the drum set is great, everyone should try it!) :)
Children can also compose music themselves by rearranging the notes.
And finally you can control a real orchestra
Maestro Yuri Bashmet himself will give you a personal master class. By waving your baton, you will feel that the music is now in your power!
Music is created by the people, and we artists only arrange it (M.I. Glinka)
There is only one conclusion - You must go and preferably with children. The museum will be of more interest to adults, but the exhibition “SOUND AND... Universe, Man, Game...” will really appeal to children!
