Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture in Moscow, Moskva River, Russia | Museum | Music Museum

In March 1912, in the former office of Nikolai Rubinstein, the founder of the Moscow Conservatoire in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia, a Museum was opened, under the name of Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture.
In 1943, the Soviet government decided to set up a State Central Museum of Musical Culture on the basis of the Conservatoire's Museum. In 1954, when the country's musical circles marked the 150th anniversary of Mikhail Glinka's birth, it was named after the great Russian composer. In the summer of 1985 its display was inaugurated in a new building constructed specially for Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture.
Preserved and studied in its depository departments are exceptionally valuable rarities such as written and printed music, musical instruments of various periods and peoples, memorial articles, and works of painting, sculpture and decorative and applied art.
No other country of the world has a musical Museum of a similar scope, and it is not accidental that the Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture in Moscow, Central Federal District, is the central one among dozens of Russian musical Museums.