International museum and
library of music of Bologna
International museum and library of music
Strada Maggiore, 34
40125 Bologna
tel. +39 051 2757711 fax 051 2757728
museomusica@comune.bologna.it
bibliotecamusica@comune.bologna.it
labmuseomusica@comune.bologna.it
The first floor of the Palazzo is home to the nine rooms of the exhibition, which illustrate about six centuries of the history of European music. There are over one hundred paintings of famous people from the music world, which are a part of the picture gallery started by Padre Giovanni Battista Martini, more than eighty antique musical instruments, and a large selection of valuable historical documents, such as treatises, volumes, opera libretti, letters, manuscripts, original musical scores, etc.