Oriental Musical Instrument Museum

The Shanghai Oriental Musical Instrument Museum is a small museum established by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The museum is located in a garden villa on Gao’an Road, Shanghai. This villa was originally the former residence of Mr. Rong Desheng, a Chinese national industrialist. The museum houses about 500 pieces (sets) of musical instruments and is divided into four exhibition areas. In the section of ancient Chinese musical instruments, there are Jiahu bone flutes dating back more than 8,000 years, imitation Tang dynasty pipas, imitation Zeng Houyi chime bells, and imitation Tang dynasty pipas inlaid with jadeite and agate.

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In the section of modern Chinese musical instruments, traditional Chinese folk musical instruments such as flutes, erhu, and zheng are collected. The exhibition hall of foreign ethnic musical instruments houses musical instruments from more than 20 countries and ethnic groups such as South Korea, Japan, Thailand, India, and Indonesia. The exhibition hall of ethnic minority musical instruments displays musical instruments of ethnic minorities such as Tibetans, Miao people, Manchus, and Yi people in southwest and northwest China.

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The museum also has a “world ethnic musical instrument retrieval system”, “audio-guided tour system”, and “group multimedia electronic tour guide system”. The specific business status of opening hours is subject to the opening situation on the day.

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