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This list of music museums offers a guide to museums worldwide that specialize in the domain of music. These institutions are dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of music-related history, including the lives and works of prominent musicians, the evolution and variety of musical instruments, and other aspects of the world of music.
The Museo de América is an art, archaeology, and ethnography museum in Madrid, Spain, devoted to the whole of the Americas from the Paleolithic period to the present day. It is one of the National Museums of Spain and it is attached to the Ministry of Culture. Gallery formerly arranged to recall the Cabinet of Natural History that preceded the ...
The museum collection comprises 2000 musical instruments, 500 of which are on display, including one of the best guitar collections of the world. [1] The museum covers historical, conservational and research aspects and promotes the city’s musical heritage. [2] The Museu de la Música is administered by the City Council.
Historical Military Museum of the Canary Islands; Latin American Craft Museum of Tenerife; Museo de Antropología de Tenerife; Museo de Arte Sacro El Tesoro De La Concepción; Museo Casa de El Capitán; Museum of Contemporary Art Eduardo Westerdahl (Macew) Museo de la Naturaleza y Arqueología; Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz de ...
In 1912, Leslie Leland Locke published "The Ancient Quipu, A Peruvian Knot Record," American Anthropologist, New Series I4 (1912) 325–332. [29] This was the first work to show how the Inca (Inka) Empire and its predecessor societies used the quipu for mathematical and accounting records in the decimal system.
The museum was originally opened in the family's home near Congressional Plaza in 1921, and his youngest daughter, Naïr, served as its first guide. Fernández Blanco sold the property and museum to the City of Buenos Aires the following year, however, and on May 25, 1922, it was re-inaugurated as the Museo de Arte Colonial .
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The bombo criollo, or simply bombo, is a family of Latin American drums derived from the European bass drum (also called in Spanish bombo) and native Latin American drum traditions. [1] These drums are of smaller dimensions than the orchestral bass drum, and their frame can be made of wood or steel.