"A whole museum dedicated to the bagpipe, the most traditional music instrument in Galicia, which belongs to the Provincial Bagpipe School of Ourense. It exhibits a large collection of bagpipes from all over the world, including unique specimens and others which have been reconstructed by specialists from the museum, as they are already impossible to find in their place of origin. The iconographic representation of the bagpipe in sculptures, paintings and photographs reflects on the evolution of this ancient instrument in history, a fundamental element in the research work of this museum.
The museum, unique in its kind and one of the largest collections in the world, occupies one of the pavilions of the old Provincial Hospital of Ourense, in the district of As Lagoas, nowadays occupied by the University Campus."
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"Museo Internacional de Cornamusas
Discover our collections:
Hispanic Bagpipes
Asturian Bagpipe
Boto Bagpipe
Foles Bagpipe
Galician Bagpipe with Two Bass Drones
Galicia Fox Skin Bagpipe
Galician Tube Bagpipe
Sanabrian Bagpipe
Sac de Gemecs
Xeremía
Xirolarrúa
Primitive Bagpipes
Alboka
Boha
Chiboni
Cimpoi
Bladder bagpipe
Gastoreña bagpipe
Gudastviri
Launeddas
Mashak
Mih
Mitsui
Ney-amban
Piva
Säckpipa
Shuvyr
Tsambouna
Tullum
Volynka
Zaqq
Slavic Bagpipes
Duda (Belarus)
Duda (Croatia)
Dudack (Bohemia)
Duduk (Armenia)
Dudy (Poland)
Gaida (Bulgaria)
Gajda (Macedonia)
Gajde (Croatia)
Gajde (Serbia)
Gajdy (Slovakia)
Parkapzuk (Armenia)
Torupill (Estonia)
Volynka (Russia, Moscovian)
British Bagpipes
Great Highland Bagpipe
Northumbrian smallpipes
Uilleann Pipes
French Bagpipes
Binioù-kozh
Bodega
Veuze
Grande Cornemuse Nivernaise
Cabrette
Boha
Musette de Cour
Italians Bagpipes
Surdulina
Giant Zampogna
Zampogna Molisana and Ciaramella
Baroque Bagpipes
Musette de Cour
Sordelline
Central European Bagpipes
Bock
Kitchen Pipe
Moezelzak
Dudey "
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Hours Monday-Friday: 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.