Ringve Museum
The Ringve Museum in Trondheim is Norway's national museum of music and musical instruments with collections from around the world.
location
The Ringve Museum is located in the Lade district on the Lade Peninsula at the gates of the city of Trondheim and is located in a botanical garden operated by the Technical and Natural Sciences University of Norway (NTNU).
history
The first house was built there in 1521. The current building formation began in 1850. When the property was sold in 1878, the Bachke family became owners. In 1919 one of the sons, Christian Anker Bachke, took over the property. He married the Russian Victoria Rostin. The two did not have children, but started collecting historical musical instruments. The museum opened in 1952. In total there are around 1,500 instruments in the collection, as well as pictures and recordings of pieces of music.
Many famous musicians visited the property, including Artur Schnabel , Lili Kraus , Ignaz Friedman , Percy Grainger , Kirsten Flagstad and Edvard Munch .
The exhibition
The exhibition is divided into two parts: the manor house and the barn .
The mansion
Working instruments are on display in the mansion, mainly keyboard instruments. It is possible to visit the house as part of a guided tour, with the guides often playing some pieces of music on the instruments.
On the ground floor there are rooms named after Mozart , Beethoven and Chopin , where their favorite instruments are exhibited. Upstairs devotes a room Elisabeth Wiborg and Adelina Patti , and there are the traditional Hardanger - Fiddling presented. There is also a Grieg room and a room in which church musical instruments are set up.
The barn
Other musical instruments are on display in the barn. In a second room, instruments can also be tried out, e.g. B. a cow horn, xylophones, drums and wooden pipes.
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Coordinates: 63 ° 26 ′ 52.8 " N , 10 ° 27 ′ 21.6" E