Music in antiquity is an exhibition about the role of music in antiquity that explores the links of music with the power, the sacred and the magical. A journey through a long historical period that also saw the birth of the professional musician and the instrumental industry spread throughout the Mediterranean, from the Middle East to Gaul.
Almost 400 works of great variety, some of them never shown to the public so far for their fragility, coming from the collections of the Louvre and twenty international institutions such as the National Archaeological Museum of Athens and the Metropolitan Museum of New York that will allow you to listen and understand a sound landscape of more than three thousand years of history.
Visitors can use audio devices to listen to the most common instruments of antiquity, and a reproduction of the oldest song known to date.
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