Czech Museum of Music

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Prague, Czech Republic. Exterior of Czech Museum of Music.

A 17th-century baroque monastery building with an impressive central atrium makes a beautiful setting for Prague’s Museum of Music (nm.cz). The museum’s permanent exhibition, entitled "Man-Instrument-Music," explores the relationship between human beings and musical instruments through the ages, and showcases an incredible collection of violins, guitars, lutes, trumpets, flutes and harmonicas.

Highlights include a grand piano played by Mozart in 1787, and the woodwind instruments of the 16th-century Rožmberk Court Ensemble. The exhibits are brought to life by recordings of music played using the actual instruments on display.

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