In the exhibition gallery some 130 instruments are on display and about 50 luthiery tools in an open-air laboratory where the museum luthiers work.

The exhibition path moves through plucked string instruments, bowed, winds, harps, lyres and also includes keyboards.

Another outstanding piece is the viola by David Tecchler, the German born luthier who worked in Rome in the first half of 1700 and maker of some of the best instruments of the time.

His is also one of the fine mandolins from the private collection of queen Margherita di Savoia who left as legacy to the museum.

Users can hire a PDA with an audio tour of the museum presenting twenty remarkable examples with pictures of the instruments.