Malaga Interactive Music Museum

Where: Muralla Plaza de la Marina s/n 29005 Málaga
Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 10 am to 2 pm and 4 pm to 8 pm. Weekends and holidays from 11 am to 3 am and from 4.30 pm to 8.30 pm

Located in downtown Málaga, and surrounded by stone walls from the 13th and 17th century the Interactive Málaga Music Museum, which opened in 2002, has a collection of over a thousands pieces, multimedia modules and spaces where instead of signs that say 'please do no touch' you will find signs with 'please play'. This is like no other museum you have visited before, as it is conceived as a cultural space where sound envelopes the visitor and stimulates his senses.

The Málaga Interactive Museum has a very marked character as a place to be initiated in music, that uses advanced and attractive technologies to allow all audiences to get more acquainted with music knowledge using sensory faculties. It's a museum with a high audience participation level, that is an activity as well as a divulgation centre about anything related to music.

The museum hosts cultural (musical) activities all year round, such as concerts, storytelling and workshops. It also holds temporary exhibitions related to the world of music.

Rooms and collection

The Málaga Interactive Music Museum has some 1,000 instruments in the collection, though only 400 are exhibited due to lack of space. Among them, instruments from all eras and cultures are found, narrating the evolution of music and the societies related to it.

In every exhibition area, the visitor can explore a cultural region and recognise the roots of music through musical identity interactive stations.

There are 11 rooms in total and the visitor can tour through the history of music, from the first room dedicated to the origins of music to the last one dedicated to mechanical or recorded music. In the museum we find spaces devoted to music from the five continents, ethnomusicology, different kinds of instruments (wind, percussion, strings, electrophones, etc.), from the most primitive bone and wooden instruments to the most sophisticated and modern electrical ones.

For music lovers or for those who are just getting acquainted with music, for those interested in the origins of instruments or for those who are just curious, the Málaga Interactive Music Museum will change your concept of music and its past, of how music has been a central element in communal life since times immemorial and how it has slowly evolved through the ages... from the time when musicians were believed to be powerful magicians or shaman-like persons, to the mechanical and digital massive reproduction days of our times. If you travel to Málaga, this museum is a must!