Muziekinstrumentenmuseum (MIM)

The Music Instruments Museum in Brussels was founded in 1877 and was subsumed in 1922 as fourth department under the Royal Museums for Art and History. The MIM’s mission is: preservation, restoration, scientific research, information, education, and entertainment.
The museum offers a wide range of activities for a public that is ideally as broad and as diverse as possible, and of national as well as foreign origin alike. Within these activities there is equal attention for early, modern, world and folk music. The MIM library has at its disposal an extensive collection of books on the subject of historic musical instruments and
the reconstruction and making of historical instruments. The museum itself exhibits an exceptionally rich collection of period instruments that the visitor can both look at and listen to.