The Interactive Museum “House of Music” (Haus der Musik) is a real place for all sound lovers, and Vienna, as the city of music, had to open something of this kind- for generally all music lovers, players and singers. This museum was opened in 2000, and is one of the favourite places for relax and fun, in a little different way. This museum consists of five floors, is completely adapted for people of all ages, both for children and adults.While going through different rooms, visitors start with the explanations of how and why the ear can hear. In the Instrumentarium, there are big musical instruments. In the room Poliphonium, there are different sounds, not only the sounds of instruments, but also the sound of the wind, rain, thunder and the sound of what babies hear in their mothers’ belly. Everyone learns how to combine each sound in every tune.
There is also a museum of history of the Vienna Philharmonic , which is especially interesting to classical music lovers, and the Vienna Philharmonic is a great history in itself. Different non-classical instruments can be played in this museum and some of them are very special. Visitors can learn how to create a sound, and they can even record their own CD with different songs and offered sounds.
Here visitors can be conductors for a day, by using an electric conductor’s baton, which is connected to the screen before them and the tune.
Visitors usually learn how to conduct to the song “The Beautiful Blue Danube”.
When you make a lot of mistakes, the music stops. On the museum’s fourth floor, you can buy for 2.9 euros a certificate with your first and last name on which it is written that you have conducted the Vienna Philharmonic.
Ticket price for the house of music
Regular ticket price: 12 €
Reduced ticket price: 5.5 € - for children from 3 to 12 years
Music house opening hours
Every day from 10am to 10pm
Author of the aricle
Maja Glavaš, Bachelor with Honours in Communicology. Works in Tourism.
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