ABOUT

Music Instrument Museums Online (MIMO) is a multilingual, searchable site providing descriptions of individual musical instruments in curated collections worldwide. Its 55,000 items can be viewed by family or by location. Results can be filtered by date, place of production, and maker. Measurements and other details of each instrument are provided. Its iconographical value is very considerable. The spinet of 1610 by Vincenzo di Prato, pictured here, comes from Grassi collection in the museum of the University of Leipzig.

RDF

data.open.ac.uk

TYPE

Catalogue

HOMEPAGE

visit the homepage of the project

EXTENT

<100000 items

LICENSE

Open Access

SUBJECT

Metadata

TASKS

purposes or situations wherein to reuse the resource:

music history

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musicology

,

history of instruments

SCOPE

not applicable

AUDIENCE

researchers

MUSIC FEATURES

for each item is described:

Descriptive Metadata

FEATURES AND SERVICES

the resource provides:

Browsing

,

Human Consumption

,

Interoperable format

,

Query Interface