A museum about music, its culture and development, the first of
its kind in China, was opened to the public on Sunday in Harbin,
capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.
Miao Di, curator of the Heilongjiang Music Museum, said that the
museum has a collection of 100 valuable musical instruments, 400
pictures about noted Chinese musicians and the manuscripts of
famous Chinese composers such as Wang Luobin, Fu Gengchen and Zhang
Peiji.
"The cultural materials on display at the museum are of high
value for research into the history of Chinese music from ancient
times to now," Miao said.
Heilongjiang, the cradle of ethnic music schools in northern
China, is also an important gateway through which Western music was
introduced to China in the late 19th century.
The privately run museum will also soon open "music classrooms"
for children, Miao said, where music experts will conduct music
appreciation talks and demonstrations for children.
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(Xinhua News Agency January 23, 2006)