Russian National Museum of Music

SCMMC was born in the Moscow Conservatory, where on March 11, 1912 the Museum named after N.G. Rubinstein was opened. In 1943, on its basis, the State Central Museum of Musical Culture was established, which in 1954 was named after M.I. Glinka.

Glinka is the largest treasury of monuments of musical culture, a repository of a unique collection of musical and literary author's manuscripts, research on the history of culture, rare books, musical publications. The museum contains autographs, letters, documents related to the life and work of figures of Russian and foreign musical culture. A special place is occupied by the collection of musical instruments of the peoples of the world. An extensive fund of audio and video recordings, a collection of fine materials.

The museum is an authoritative scientific center. Its employees conduct research work, are engaged in the search, maintenance in scientific and cultural everyday life of unknown or forgotten works, musical names. Publications of musical and literary manuscripts, epistolary heritage of musicians, iconographic materials are carried out.

The museum has a modern recording studio and an organ concert hall. Lecture and excursion work invariably attracts the attention of a diverse audience.

No country in the world has a music museum of this scale, and it is no coincidence that the Museum is included in the State Code of Especially Valuable Cultural Heritage Sites of the Peoples of the Russian Federation.