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  • Preserving and Exploring our Musical Heritage
    The Museum of Music History
  • The Museum of Music History
    Preserving and Exploring our Musical Heritage
Our Unique Collection

We care for tens of thousands of musical artefacts spanning several centuries. Our unique collection of musical material encompasses sheet music, portraits, photographs, concert, opera and ballet programmes, ephemera and illustrated title pages, books, periodicals, sculpture, instruments, recordings and personal archives.

All aspects of vocal and instrumental music are celebrated, from opera to popular music. We provide access to researchers by appointment and are always seeking to build partnerships with other museums and institutions, including those devoted to the other performing arts.

We welcome enquiries from any individual or public body seeking a secure location to which they can donate their historical collections and archival material.

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March 2024

Latest Exhibition

English organist, composer, teacher and writer who died 100 years ago.
February 2024

Previous Exhibition

Edinburgh in four views in the mid-Nineteenth Century as shown on a musical title page.
Exhibition DateSubject
March 2024
Sir Frederick BRIDGE (1844-1924)
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February 2024
William WILSON
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June 2022
Iain HAMILTON (1922-2000)
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March 2022
Musically Themed Liebig Cards – Part IV
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November 2019
Sir Charles HALLÉ (1819-1895)
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April 2019
Hector BERLIOZ (1803-1869)
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Museum of Music History

We are gratefully accepting donations