- Wikidata identifier:
- Q116738951
- Instance of:
- university museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum; Designated collection
- Accreditation number:
- 1796
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q116738951/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Musical Instrument Collection
The Royal College of Music’s Museum of Instruments houses an internationally renowned collection of over 800 instruments and accessories from about 1480 to the present (600 European, keyboard, stringed and wind; 100 Asian and African). Gifts since the foundation of the College in 1883 include important collections from the Rajah S.M. Tagore (1884), the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII (1886), Sir George Donaldson (1894), A.J. Hipkins (1911), E.A.K. Ridley (1968), Geoffrey Hartley (1985), Amaryllis Fleming (2002), Richard Walton (2003) and Crispian Steele-Perkins (2003).
Subjects
Musicians; Musical instruments
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC