In March 1912, in the former office of Nikolai Rubinstein, the founder of the Moscow Conservatoire, a museum was opened.
In 1943, the Soviet government decided to set up a State Central Museum of
Musical Culture on the basis of the Conservatoire's museum.
In 1954, when the country's musical circles marked the 150th anniversary of Mikhail Glinka's
birth, it was named after the great Russian composer. In the summer of 1985 its display was
inaugurated in a new building constructed specially for the museum.
In the summer of 1985 its display was inaugurated in a new building constructed specially for the museum.
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Preserved and studied in its depository departments are exceptionally valuable
rarities such as written and printed music, musical instruments of various periods and peoples,
memorial articles, and works of painting, sculpture and decorative and applied art.
No other country of the world has a musical museum of a similar scope, and it is not
accidental that the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture is the central one among dozens of
Russian musical museums.
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