Mim - Musical instruments museum

Mim - Musical instruments museum and its collection

The Mim (Musical Instrument Museum) is housed in an 1899 Art Nouveau building. The museum displays a collection of some 1,500 musical instruments. There are also sound recordings from antiquity to the present day. Mechanical and the 20th-century instruments and bells are displayed underground. On the first floor, Belgian and European folk instruments and non-European instruments are on display. On the second floor, visitors walk from Antiquity to the 20th century, and the second floor is devoted to keyboard and string instruments.