Free Lunchtime Tour of Royal College of Music Museum

The Royal College of Music Museum is offering a short, 30 minute, lunchtime tour of the galleries. We display an internationally renowned collection of more than 1,500 items including musical instruments, portraits, sculptures, photographs and engravings related to music. Highlights include a clavicytherium (an upright harpsichord) dated c 1480, believed to be the earliest surviving stringed keyboard instrument, the earliest dated guitar (Belchior Dias, 1581), the earliest baryton (1647), and one of the most important collections of English viols on public display. Many of our instruments date from the early 16th century to the present day and demonstrate the development of instrument models and sounds over time.