It will pay homage to the familiar and unfamiliar sounds that represent our common language - music. Music that has been used in rites, fetes, ceremonies or just for listening pleasure. This unique museum will be a world-class center for ethnomusicology.
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Visitors will witness for themselves how instruments have sounded out the rhythm of life through centuries, cultures and continents. |
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No other musical instrument collection in the world will fascinate and inspire its guests quite like MIM. This museum will be a unique place where people of diverse backgrounds can experience instruments and music from cultures around the world. The experience will reinforce not only what is unique about cultures, but also what is shared and universal. It will help us to understand the musical contributions of global cultures and man’s universal expression of life, art and ritual.
Chosen from each of the countries and territories of the world, the approximately 5,000 indigenous and popular folk instruments at MIM will represent the music of people from all walks of life. From the instruments played in the courts of kings to the humble and handcrafted instruments cherished by families across the globe.
Special wireless technology will immerse guests in the sound of these instruments being played as they are being viewed. Photos and videos displayed on high-resolution flat-panel screens will also enhance the experience by showing how the instruments are played. Visitors will witness for themselves how instruments have sounded out the rhythm of life through centuries, cultures and continents. They will see how the music they love has traveled the world and transformed the people who heard it. MIM will be a shrine to the inventive spirit and incredible voices of the instruments created by mankind. Most instruments will be displayed in the open without glass cases. Workshops will show how certain instruments are made, and other rooms will give guests the opportunity to touch and play instruments from diverse ethnic cultures.
