Music Center the Netherlands (MCN) is an organization that promotes and archives Dutch professional music.
It organizes events and informative meetings, workshops, and courses; publishes promotional CDs; and attends international music fairs and conventions.
It is a merger of seven music institutes: Donemus (documentation center for classical music), Gaudeamus (center for contemporary music), De Kamervraag (center for classical music), Dutch Jazz Organisation, the Dutch Jazz Service, the Netherlands Jazz Archive, and the Dutch Rock and Pop Institute.
[2] One of the organization's online publications is the Muziekencyclopedie, an encyclopedia of Dutch bands and artists.
In 2009, it helped establish an endowed chair for Jazz and Improvisational Music at the University of Amsterdam.