Some facts:

The Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture is a unique repository of musical heritage having no analog in the world, a scientific, research and educational institution. The Museum collects, preserves, restores and studies musical masterpieces. In early 1995 under the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation the Museum was registered among especially valuable objects of the cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation.

The Fund of the Museum with its nearly one million articles stores musical instruments of peoples of the world, musicians' personal archives, sound recordings, rare publications and music books as well as such visual objects of the fine arts as theatre and scenery drawings, black-and-white art, sculpture portraits of musicians, items of decorative and applied art, paintings, arts and crafts, photos (positives and negatives). A substantial place is occupied by theatre paintings of such masters as Nicholas Roerich, Konstantin Korovin, Fyodor Fedorovsky, Alexander Lushin, Vadim Ryndin, Boris Messerer and Valery Levental.

The Museum incorporates manuscripts of famous Russian and foreign musicians such as Mikhail Glinka, Alexander Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergey Rakhmaninov, Alexander Skryabin, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitry Shostakovich, Gioacchino Rossini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Ferencz Liszt and Johannes Brahms.

Two permanent expositions are displayed in the Museum. They are "Musical Instruments of Peoples of the World" and "Three Centuries of Russian Music". Series of concerts for adult and children season ticket holders, excursions, concerts accompanied with lectures, festivals and music recording parties are held in the Museum. Soundtracks of the Museum historical musical instruments are made. Exhibitions of modern artists are displayed in the Gallery of "Fyodor Shalyapin's House".

The Museum is an authoritative scientific centre. Its workers carry our research, look for unknown or forgotten names of musicians, unfamiliar compositions and music autographs to further use them in science and culture. The Museum publishes musical and literary manuscripts, letters of musicians, iconography works. Conferences and scientific readings are held as well. Being the leading institute, the Glinka Museum renders methodic assistance and gives consultations to Russian museums of musical orientation.

There are six branches affiliated to the Glinka Museum - Fyodor Shalyapin's Memorial Estate, Nikolay Golovanov's Memorial Flat, Alexander Goldenweiser's Memorial Flat, the "Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Moscow" Museum, the Sergey Prokofiev Museum, Sergey Taneyev's House (in the stage of creation).

International competitions of violin makers take place in the Glinka Museum in the frame of the International Pyotr Tchaikovsky Competition once every four years. In 2007 the fifth competition was held.

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