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Geelvinck Pianola Museum

Name: Geelvinck Pianola Museum
Price range: $
Rating: 4.6

4.6 ·

Discover the Geelvinck Pianola Museum, a hidden corner of Amsterdam devoted to self-playing pianos. Watch them work, learn how paper music rolls drive them, and take a turn at the keys.

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Full description

The Geelvinck Pianola Museum is devoted to automatic pianos and the paper music rolls that drive them. Visitors hear instruments in action, learn their history and technology, and can try a pianola themselves.

Reviewers praise the excellent guides and describe the experience as a trip back in time, noting an air-powered mechanism that works like an early computer. The archive holds more than 30,000 rolls.

Opening days are limited, with Monday closed and Saturday afternoons only, so check ahead. Around 45 minutes works well for the visit.

Reviewers praise the excellent guides and describe the experience as a trip back in time, noting an air-powered mechanism that works like an early computer. The archive holds more than 30,000 rolls.

Opening days are limited, with Monday closed and Saturday afternoons only, so check ahead. Around 45 minutes works well for the visit.

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Address

Westerstraat 106, 1015 MN Amsterdam, Netherlands · Amsterdam-Centrum

Website

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Hours

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Booking

Walk-in

Duration

45 min

Best time

lunchtime or afternoon

Intensity

Easy pace

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Good to know

Open only on limited days and hours, so check before going
join the guided demonstration, which brings the machines to life
try playing the pianola when invited.

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Reviews

A small but well run museum focusing on the playing piano. Excellent guides and you end up spending an hour there watching/hearing the pianos work, learning the history and you even got to try your hand at it as well. Very enjoyable and unique / off the beaten path thing to do in Amsterdam.

AMS Foodie

1/5

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