The Musée de la Musique de la

Philharmonie de Paris The Philharmonie de Paris () () is a complex of concert halls in Paris, France. The buildings also house exhibition spaces and rehearsal rooms. The main buildings are all located in the Parc de la Villette at the northeastern edge of Paris in the ...

is a French museum in

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, inaugurated in 1997. It has a collection of several thousand

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and

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, inherited from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, which traces the history of Western music, both learned and popular, from the 16th century onwards, and offers an overview of the world's principal musical styles. Located in the Villette district, in the

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, the museum and media library occupy the garden wing of the "Philharmonie 2" building, formerly the

Cité de la Musique The Cité de la Musique (, "City of Music"), also known as Philharmonie 2, is a group of institutions dedicated to music and situated in the Parc de la Villette, 19th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was designed with the nearby Conservatoi ...

⁣, built by

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, as part of the

. In addition to the thousand or so works in the permanent exhibition, presented in their geographical and historical context, the museum organizes temporary exhibitions, guided tours and free concerts, as well as early-learning workshops, promenade concerts and musical storytelling. Finally, the Musée de la Musique, which has been awarded the "Musée de France" label, carries out a mission of conservation and research, providing access to the most recent data on ancient and modern instruments in its documentation center, which is integrated into the media library, and giving free access to its digital content via a

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The museum has a collection of more than 8,000 instruments and art objects. In 2015, the museum itinerary defined five chapters to illustrate the main moments in the history of music since the Baroque period. Other Paris museums complement the museum's collections, depending on their specialization, such as the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac and its 9,128 non-European musical instruments, and the popular music instruments conserved at the MuCEM. To a lesser extent, the

Musée de l'Armée The Musée de l'Armée (; "Army Museum") is a national military museum of France located at Les Invalides in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. It is served by Paris Métro stations Invalides (Paris Métro and RER), Invalides, Varenne (Paris Métro ...

also owns 349 military musical instruments, some 60 of which are displayed in a cabinet opened on December 17, 2015, including the deposit of 30 instruments from the Musée de la Musique; while the

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holds instruments dating back to Egyptian antiquity.

Resource center

The museum is closely linked to the Philharmonie's media library, located in the beam-shaped structure above the museum, where it houses four collections (museum collections, documentary and archival, digitized, educational and orientation) and, as of January 1, 2016, included over 80,000 documents (excluding archival holdings) and 110,000 with audiovisual recordings. Most of the composers' autograph manuscripts were entrusted to the

Bibliothèque nationale de France The (; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites, ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository of all that is published in France. Some of its extensive collections, including bo ...

in 1942, for reasons of rationalization and conservation.

Gallery

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Hans Ruckers The Ruckers family (variants: Ruckaert, Ruckaerts, Rucqueer, Rueckers, Ruekaerts, Ruijkers, Rukkers, Rycardt) were harpsichord and virginal makers from the Southern Netherlands based in Antwerp in the 16th and 17th century. Their influence stret ...

, 1583, Antwerp File:Trompettes baroques.jpg, Baroque trumpets by Johann Wilhelm Haas, 1671,

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. File:ClavecinsBrisésMarius.JPG, Two broken harpsichords by Jean Marius (Paris, 1700) File:Musee-de-la-musique-6.jpg, Guitars and lutes from the 19th and 20th centuries, by

Antonio de Torres Antonio de Torres Jurado (13 June 1817 – 19 November 1892) was a Spanish guitarist and luthier, and "the most important Spanish guitar maker of the 19th century." It is with his designs that the first recognizably modern classical guitars are ...

above and

Django Reinhardt Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known by his Romani people, Romani nickname Django ( or ), was a Belgium, Belgian-born Romani jazz guitarist and composer in France. He was one of the first major jazz talents to emerge in Europe ...

below, far left. File:ClavecinRuckersTaskin.jpg,

Harpsichord A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard, keyboard. Depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, which in turn raises a mechanism with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic that plucks one ...

by Andréas II

Ruckers The Ruckers family (variants: Ruckaert, Ruckaerts, Rucqueer, Rueckers, Ruekaerts, Ruijkers, Rukkers, Rycardt) were harpsichord and Virginals, virginal makers from the Southern Netherlands based in Antwerp in the 16th and 17th century. Their influe ...

, 1646,

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