MUZIKA ETNIKA in Czech Museum of Music

By presenting groups of instruments from seven cultural regions on four continents we would like to show that music is formed by the same set of rules as an entire mother culture.

Each of these groups presents a kind of window through which we can look into a culture and take note of some of its distinctive characteristics reflected in its music.

The exhibition is open till Nov 02, 2008.

Opening hours:
WED-MON: 10 AM - 6 PM
CLOSED: every Tuesday

Location: Czech Museum of Music, Karmelitská 2/4, Praha 1

The new seat of the Czech Museum of Music is located in the former Baroque church of St. Mary Magdalene at Lesser Side, built in the 17th Century according to the proposal of Francesco Caratti. The church was gradually rebuilt after the dissolution of the Dominican Monastery in 1783. Among other things, it served as a Police barracks and archive. The unusual symbiosis of the early Baroque church architecture with the classicist adjustment of usage and newly finished reconstruction of the Museum offers visitors a detail of an impressive combination of monumentality.