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In March 1912,Nikolai Rubinstein, the founder of the Moscow
Conservatoire, opened an museum. Already then its small
display was a curious collection of various musical relics
such as written music, manuscripts, memorial articles, musical
instruments, and works of fine arts. However, it was only
in the Soviet period that the museum became really popular.
Its funds were expanded and its research and educational
work became active. In 1943, the Soviet government decided
to set up a State Central Museum of Musical Culture on the
basis of the Conservatoire's museum. In 1954, when the country's
musical circles marked the 150th anniversary of Mikhail
Glinka's birth, it was named after the great Russian composer.
Soon the museum moved to an old mansion known as the Boyar
Troyekurov's Palace, and in the summer of 1985 its display
was inaugurated in a new building constructed specially
for the museum.
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