Musical Instrument Museum

On Fri­day, June 26, my grand­son and I vis­it­ed the Musi­cal Muse­um togeth­er. We have all been to this muse­um on my last trip, but it was the penul­ti­mate day of my vis­it, and the vis­it was some­what expe­dit­ed. This time I want­ed to take a clos­er look.

This muse­um has sev­er­al halls, which con­tain musi­cal instru­ments of the peo­ples around the world. At the entrance to the muse­um, each vis­i­tor is giv­en a spe­cial device with head­phones. A vis­i­tor can approach any instru­ment and read infor­ma­tion about it. He can press a but­ton on the stand and hear in the head­phones how this or that instru­ment sounds, and hear the tra­di­tion­al melody of the state from which this instru­ment was tak­en. Very inter­est­ing muse­um. You can wan­der there for hours and not lis­ten to every­thing.

In the foy­er of the muse­um there is a large piano that any vis­i­tor can play. The muse­um has a small con­cert hall where musi­cal per­for­mances are held. We just hap­pened to be at the time when some African dance group was performing.

My daugh­ter brought us in the morn­ing by car, and she left on busi­ness. True, we made one unfor­giv­able mis­take — we took a lot of sweets with us for a snack (here they are called snacks). So the child had all his thoughts occu­pied with “snacks”. He con­stant­ly said that he was hun­gry, and he had to go to the gar­den to eat. 😊 In addi­tion to instru­ments, the muse­um had tables for eat­ing in a cozy garden.