Music Instrument Museums Online (MIMO)

title

Music Instrument Museums Online (MIMO)

homepage

here

description

Music Instrument Museums Online (MIMO) is a multilingual, searchable site providing descriptions of individual musical instruments in curated collections worldwide. Its 55,000 items can be viewed by family or by location. Results can be filtered by date, place of production, and maker. Measurements and other details of each instrument are provided. Its iconographical value is very considerable. The spinet of 1610 by Vincenzo di Prato, pictured here, comes from Grassi collection in the museum of the University of Leipzig.

creator or project

Music Instrument Museums Online (MIMO)

type

Catalogue

purpose

Research

audience

researchers

task or research field

music history

musicology

history of instruments

technical features

Provides interfaces for browsing contents

Provides user-friendly interfaces

Shares data in open data formats

Provides user-friendly search interfaces

example resource

here

type of collected resources

Instrument

category of data collected

Metadata

music data features

Descriptive Metadata

collection size

<100000

data formats

jpg

data license

Open Access


URI

https://w3id.org/musow/1635268063-580828