This is one of the best museums in Sweden, and perhaps even one of the best in the world devoted to this subject. Musical instruments from all historical eras and peoples are displayed here. The collection, housed in a former royal bakery, a 17th-century building, occupies quite a large area, which is a real pleasure to wander through!
The nicest thing about the music museum is that you can try to “play” some of the instruments. The museum uses the following symbols: a green square — you may play it, a red circle — you may not. If an exhibit is behind glass and looks very fragile, it comes with headphones with a recording of how it sounds. There are quite a lot of instruments with green squares, so there are practically never any queues for them. There is also a huge globe music library here, with national music “attached” to each point on it.
In addition to musical instruments, throughout the museum you can find many rather unusual exhibits. In some places they teach you to dance to certain music, in others they show marvelous videos, and elsewhere you can sit down at a drum kit and, putting on headphones, try to keep in time with the music.
