Musical Instrument Museum

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The Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) is in central Brussels, Belgium.

The MIM collection was started in 1877. The current building was opened in 2000 and has over 1,500 instruments on display. Visitors to the museum are given infrared headphones, providing the music for many of the instruments on view when standing close to the exhibit. Labels are in French and Dutch but not English.

The museum is located at Rue Montagne de la Cour 2. The building is art nouveau in style. It is in the former Old England department store, built of girded steel and glass in 1899 by Paul Saintenoy [1]. There is a wrought-iron lift. On the 6th floor is a café with large glass windows and good views of Brussels.

MIM is part of the Royal Museums of Art and History.

[edit] External links

• Museum website
• The Musical Instrument Museum, Brussels, Belgium from the BBC
• Information from Tripadvisor