Berlin Musical Instruments Museum: tickets, opening hours and visit
The Musikinstrumenten-Museum, at 1 Tiergartenstraße, is Berlin's museum of musical instruments, next to the Philharmonie in the Kulturforum. It holds about 3,300 instruments, around 800 of them on display, from the 16th century to today: a Stradivari violin, flutes of Frederick the Great, harpsichords, pianos, automatons and the "Mighty Wurlitzer", the largest cinema and theatre organ on the European continent. Allow 1 to 1.5 hours. It is an easy stop between the Berlin Philharmonie, the Gemäldegalerie and the Neue Nationalgalerie, all close by. The museum belongs to the Institute for Musicological Research of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.
Highlights
The Kulturforum building
The museum occupies a 1980s building at the foot of the Philharmonie, ten minutes' walk from Potsdamer Platz.
The mechanical instruments
Player pianos, harp clocks and other mechanical instruments show how music was "recorded" before the record.
The Mighty Wurlitzer
The collection's theatre organ is played in short concerts, announced on Saturdays at noon: check the date on the museum's website.
Concerts
The museum also runs "Jour Fixe" afternoons with students from Berlin's conservatories, every other Wednesday.
Practical info
Tips
- Admission €10; reduced €5; free up to age 18. Prices and hours taken from berlin.de and the museum's website in October 2026. The museum currently keeps reduced summer hours because of renovation work (until 1 November 2026); from 2 November the hours change and the sources consulted do not clearly give the weekends: check them before you come. Wheelchair accessible, with lifts and accessible toilets. For another indoor outing nearby, see Berlin on a rainy day.
How to get there
Tiergartenstraße 1, 10785 Berlin. S-Bahn and U-Bahn, Potsdamer Platz station, about 400 m away; several bus lines stop at the Philharmonie.
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