Cité de la Musique

The Cité de la Musique, as an EPIC, was also entrusted by the State with the management of the Salle Pleyel, which reopened on 13 September 2006, after major renovations.

[2] The Cité de la Musique, also known as Philharmonie 2, with an area of 28,748 m2, includes: Placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture.

The museum's collection, which opened to the public in 1864, and was relocated at the Cité de la Musique in 1997, contains instruments used in Western classical, modern and non-European music from the sixteenth century to the present time.

It includes lutes, archlutes, almost 200 classical guitars,[3] violins by Italian luthiers Antonio Stradivari,[4] the Guarneri family, Nicolò Amati; French and Flemish harpsichords; pianos by French piano-makers Sébastien Érard and Ignaz Pleyel; saxophones by Adolphe Sax, etc.

Personal audio devices are provided to visitors at the entrance, allowing them to listen to commentary and musical excerpts played on the instruments, complemented by video screens and scale models along the way.