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MIMO. Musical Instruments Museum Online. Philharmonie de Paris in partnership with University of Edinburgh, Cité de la Musique, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Muziekinstrumentenmuseum, Association "Amici del Museo degli Strumenti Musicali." 2009-2011. In English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, and Catalan.
URL: http://www.mimo-international.com/MIMO/
"Welcome to the world's largest freely accessible database for information on musical instruments held in public collections. Our database now contains the records of 55,535 instruments." This is the promise made by the website MIMO. Musical Instruments Museum Online and realized through an exhaustive project at the Philharmonie de Paris in France. The website provides a centralized point of access to information about selected instrument collections housed in Europe. Through a series of submenu headlines, the user can access details of the collections in the language(s) of the originating museums.
The website invites us to explore some world collections of musical instruments that include large European collections dating back to colonial times. These collections have grown through private enthusiasts working in or about a larger region such as the Royal Museum for Central Africa Tervuren and the Musical Instruments Museum Brussels in Belgium; the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Ethnological Museum Berlin) and the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Germany; the Royal College of Music Museum London and the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom; the Museu de la Musica Barcelona...