State Institute for Music Research

It is an agency of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and operates the Berlin Musical Instrument Museum.

After the war, what remained of the Institute came under the direct control of the West Berlin city government and a painstaking reconstruction began, with a focus on the valuable instruments collection.

On the 200th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach's death in 1950, the Institute held the first chamber music concert on historic instruments.

A ceremony was held to lay the foundation stone for the Institute's current building in 1979 on the Kulturforum, which opened to the public in 1984.

This Department researches Recording studio technology, services the Institute's Electronic equipment, and manages the full digitization its resources.

One major project captures the sounds of the historic musical instruments in the Museum systematically and them develops mathematical models to describe them.