Beethoven and Bach would be proud. In a country where instrument-making has been whittled to an expertise over centuries, a museum dedicated to this art is only due.

Part of the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung, the Musikinstrumenten-Museum embraces Germany’s glorious history of music with its collection of over 3,000 instruments stemming from the 16th to the 21st centuries, making it one of the country’s most comprehensive collections.

Sadly, only 800 of these instruments are on display, but they include a spectacular selection including a rare Strativarious violin, Friedrich the Great flutes and a massive Mighty Wurlitzer Theater Organ donated from the Siemens family.