Musical Instruments | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has included musical instruments in its collection since soon after it was founded. The Luigi Palma di Cesnola collection of antiquities included many ancient instruments when it entered the Museum in 1880. … In the 1930s, the eminent German musicologist Curt Sachs came to New York to escape Nazi Germany …

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