Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica

Are you a musician? Do you like to play music or just listen to music? Either way you have to go and visit this place! Among other amazing things that you can see, learn and enjoy, for me was the Rossini area including the autographed manuscript of Il Barbiere di Siviglia! Yngwie Malmsteen’s Fender guitar is also here right at the entrance of the museum! I’ll stop here and I promise that you won’t be disappointed by this museum!

It was very interesting to see old musical instruments, to find out more about the famous musicians. Very quiet museum, not very many visitors.

This is a superb museum, if you are at all interested in the history of music.- in fact it's a must. The exhibits are absolutely fascinating, some quite breathtaking, and mostly marked in Italian and German. Well worth a visit!!

A stunning setting which houses some great musical artefacts. However, the museum is quite small, and it lacks the immersive aspect; there is no musical aspect in a music museum. It is definitely well-kept, and a beautiful place to visit, but I wouldn’t recommend having it at the top of your attractions list (unless you are an absolute music fanatic). We only visited because it was free and not crowded, and there are definitely greater attractions in Bologna.

The museum was interesting. It had some beautiful displays. Free entry for students (not only studying in Italy) but you must have some kind of proof for that.

Small but very nice exhibition, well decorated. It's an elegant story about the solo contribution of Mr. Martini (if I'm not mistaken the name) on collecting and organising the history of music in his period. I would not claim it "international music museum" as it's misleading. The atmosphere is more of a gallery rather than a music museum where you have music played in all rooms. There is no interactive part, no translations in English on the labels and we haven't been proposed to the option of audio guide even though some icons suggest it. The interior design of the building is very nice and compliments the elegant atmosphere. The lady on the entrance was very charming and positive. The ticket of 5 euro is ok for the place.

This is a very lovely museum with lots of great antique instruments, books and lyrical scripts. It’s very well presented and kept, I really enjoyed the time I spent here looking at the various pieces in this wonderful collection. If you’re into music and you enjoy musical instruments I would definitely recommend visiting this lovely museum.

Some amazing music artifacts in this place! The only issue is all the explanations were in Italian. We were lucky enough to visit on a Saturday- so there was a nice music teacher working there on the weekends who spoke perfect English and answered our questions, so would recommend visiting on the weekend. Located in a beautiful old building with a unique design, the museum houses a variety of one of a kind instruments, music theory documents, sheet music written by Mozart (his handwriting and all) - really special stuff! A must see for classical and general music fans, a nice to see for anyone who never studied music and doesn’t speak Italian…

Excellent. Lots of interesting information. Beautiful instruments. Definitely worth a visit. We spent about an hour here. €8 for 2