#MusicalInstruments at The #MetropolitanMuseum of Art
...collection incl approx 5,000 examples from 6 continents and the Pacific Islands, from about 300 B.C. to the present... from all cultures & eras. Selected for their technical and social importance as well as for their tonal and visual beauty... art objects, as ethnographic record, and as doc of the history of music & performance." https://www.metmuseum.org/departments/musical-instruments

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)
New York, NY 10028