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The Musical Instrument Museum ('''MIM''') is a museum in central Brussels , Belgium . The MIM collection was started in 1877 . The current building was opened in 2000 and has over 1,500 instruments on display. Visitors to the museum are given Infrared Headphones , providing the music for many of the instruments on view when standing close to the exhibit. Labels are in French and Dutch but not English . The museum is located at the ''Hofberg'' / ''Rue Montagne de la Cour'' 2 on the Mont Des Arts . The building is Art Nouveau in style. It is in the former Old England Department Store , built of girded steel and glass in 1899 by Paul Saintenoy {Link without Title} . There is a wrought-iron lift. On the 6th floor is a café with large glass windows and good views of Brussels. MIM is part of the Royal Museums Of Art And History . EXTERNAL LINKS
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