"This is not a museum, it is a home for musical instruments"
This is how the museum's founder, Victoria Bachke, described the first instrument exhibition that opened at Ringve in ...
"This is not a museum, it is a home for musical instruments"
This is how the museum's founder, Victoria Bachke, described the first instrument exhibition that opened at Ringve in 1952. "I collect everything having to do with music," Bachke wrote to her supporters, and among the first items were African drums and the walking stick that had belonged to Norwegian violinist Ole Bull. Today, the collections at Ringve comprise some 2000 musical instruments from all over the world. In addition, more than 25,000 pieces of sheet music, phonograph rolls, piano sheet rolls, polyphonic plates and gramophone records are preserved here.
A museum collection contains many narratives and perspectives. This exhibition reveals the diversity of the collections at Ringve and how music and musical instruments, in various ways, fill our lives with meaning. What is a musical instrument, and what significance can instruments have in your life and mine?
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