The street organs
Huge colourful Dutch organs played before you.
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Honestly for everyone: children dance and interact, adults marvel at the mechanical precision and the beauty of the historic instruments. The live playing tour makes it an experience, not a silent museum โ one of the Netherlands' most loved museums across ages. A delightful ninety minutes.
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Museum Speelklok is Utrecht's most enjoyable family museum: the museum of self-playing musical instruments โ from small music boxes and singing clocks to huge colourful Dutch street organs, player pianos and giant dance organs. In an old church, it shows centuries of the genius of "music without a musician". The secret of its fun is that it is not a silent museum: the tour is guided and the instruments are played before you โ you hear the street organ play, the clocks sing and the automaton dolls move, so the museum is a live concert moving through its halls. Children dance to the giant organs' tunes, and adults marvel at the mechanical engineering before the age of electricity. In the heart of the old town on the canal โ an outstanding family destination for all ages, and one of the Netherlands' most fun and authentic museums.
Huge colourful Dutch organs played before you.
Music boxes and clocks singing with delicate automaton birds.
Moving figures that play and dance โ engineering before electricity.
Steenweg 6, 3511 Utrecht