Museo Interactivo de la Música, Musical instrument museum in Centro district, Málaga, Spain.
The museum showcases roughly 400 musical instruments from different traditions worldwide, spread across multiple exhibition areas for exploration. The collection includes stringed, wind, and percussion instruments from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, demonstrating the wide range of human creativity in sound-making.
The museum was founded in 2013 and operates within the Palacio Conde de las Navas, a historic palace in central Málaga. Housing the collection in this grand building reflected the city's commitment to anchoring musical education and international culture in its heart.
The name reflects the museum's focus on hands-on learning, where visitors can try various instruments and understand how different cultures approach music-making. The spatial arrangement guides guests through different regions of the world, showing how people everywhere have found similar or entirely different approaches to creating sound.
The location is easy to reach on foot since it sits in the city center and connects well to main streets. Visitors should allow time to try the interactive stations, as reviewing all instruments and experimenting can take several hours.
A special feature is the ability to play many of the displayed instruments yourself, making it a hands-on music experience rather than just viewing. This interactive nature lets visitors directly experience the differences in sound and playing technique between instruments from different cultures.
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