Museums - Cité de la Musique

Devoted entirely to the art of music, this unique French museum is home to an important collection of non-European musical instruments. Africa is represented by 186 pieces, including tubular zithers, rhythm bells, flutes, harps, lutes, lyres, zoomorphic slit drums, viols, xylophones, and oliphant horns, one of which dates from the sixteenth century. The Asian collection is the largest, featuring 525 examples from China, Japan, Korea, and India, as well as some beautiful tribal objects from northern India, Burma, and Laos. A group of artifacts from the Americas and the Arctic rounds out the museum's ethnographic holdings.