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Museum of Instruments

 
Address: Royal College of Music Prince Consort Road, South Kensington,  SW7 2BS
Telephone: 020 7591 4346
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Museum of Instruments is in the London Borough of Westminster
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The RCM Museum of Instruments was started in 1894 with a donation from Sir George Donaldson.
Today it features over six hundred instruments, some of which date from 1480.

There are many exhibits including the Donaldson, Tagore, Hipkins, Ridley and Hartley Collections. You will be able to see a spinet used by Handel and a clavichord once owned by Haydn.


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