Museum of Asian Music
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The Museum of Asian Music (formerly Asian Music Centre) is a ethnological museum
near Acton, west London.
Officially opened by HRH The Prince of Wales in 2008, the Museum features permanent displays of Asian musical instruments and occasional temporary exhibitions focusing on different countries and regions of Asia. The building serves as the principal office of the Asian Music Circuit
, which administers the Museum and owns the collections, and is used as a venue for recitals and workshops.
An extensive audio-visual archive
is based in the museum and can be accessed on dedicated computer terminals. The archive includes whole concerts, rehearsals, summer schools, seminars, lectures, instrument making sessions, instrument introductions, and lecture demonstrations and forms one of the most comprehensive and steadily-growing modern Asian music and dance digital archives in the world, containing around 2,500 hours of digital audio and video files.
The Museum is fully accessible
and open to the public.
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
near Acton, west London.
Officially opened by HRH The Prince of Wales in 2008, the Museum features permanent displays of Asian musical instruments and occasional temporary exhibitions focusing on different countries and regions of Asia. The building serves as the principal office of the Asian Music Circuit
Asian Music Circuit
The Asian Music Circuit is a UK-based organisation based which produces tours and concerts internationally, holds educational and outreach events in the UK and works generally to promote the music of Asia. Registered in Hemel Hempstead, its office and museum are based in West London...
, which administers the Museum and owns the collections, and is used as a venue for recitals and workshops.
An extensive audio-visual archive
Archive
An archive is a collection of historical records, or the physical place they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of an organization...
is based in the museum and can be accessed on dedicated computer terminals. The archive includes whole concerts, rehearsals, summer schools, seminars, lectures, instrument making sessions, instrument introductions, and lecture demonstrations and forms one of the most comprehensive and steadily-growing modern Asian music and dance digital archives in the world, containing around 2,500 hours of digital audio and video files.
The Museum is fully accessible
Accessibility
Accessibility is a general term used to describe the degree to which a product, device, service, or environment is available to as many people as possible. Accessibility can be viewed as the "ability to access" and benefit from some system or entity...
and open to the public.
See also
- Asian Music CircuitAsian Music CircuitThe Asian Music Circuit is a UK-based organisation based which produces tours and concerts internationally, holds educational and outreach events in the UK and works generally to promote the music of Asia. Registered in Hemel Hempstead, its office and museum are based in West London...
- Arts Council EnglandArts Council EnglandArts Council England was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three separate bodies for England, Scotland and Wales. It is a non-departmental public body of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport...
- Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, UK
- Museum of Asian ArtMuseum of Asian ArtThe Museum of Asian Art is located in the Dahlem neighborhood of the borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin, Germany.The museum houses about 20,000 Asian artifacts, making it one of the largest museums of ancient Asian art in the world....
, Berlin, Germany