Musical Instrument Museum

Japanese: 楽器博物館 - がっきはくぶつかん

A specialized museum that exhibits musical instruments. Most exhibit instruments that have played an important role in music history, but some have a more limited range, such as keyboard instruments, automatic instruments, or folk instruments. There are educational museums that comprehensively display a variety of instruments to meet the needs of the general public, and museums that focus on historical instruments and are used for research into musical instruments, with the latter being the most current type. This is not unrelated to the fact that in the 20th century, the value of early music was rediscovered and the importance of musical instruments was recognized as a result of the spotlight being placed on folk music, leading to the development of a new academic field: the historical study of musical instruments.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

楽器を展示する専門的博物館。音楽史的に重要な役割を果たした楽器を展示するものが主だが，鍵盤楽器，自動楽器また民俗楽器など範囲をしぼったものもある。さまざまな楽器を包括的に整え市民の教養にこたえる教育的なものから，歴史的楽器を中核として楽器学の研究のためのものもあり，後者が最も今日的な形といえよう。これは20世紀に入って古楽の価値が再認識され，また民俗音楽に光があてられたことによって楽器の重要性が認識され，楽器に関する歴史的研究という新しい学問が進んできたことと無関係ではない。

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