Music Without Musicians


Music Without Musicians – music boxes and juke boxes,, is a museum in Hořovice in the Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic. It is dedicated to music instruments that need no musicians to produce music. The museum is situated at Hořovice Castle.

Collection

The museum houses a collection of mechanical music instruments from the 18th, 19th and 20th century. The collection consists of jukeboxes, music boxes, mechanical paintings, barrel organs, polyphons, orchestrions and more different instruments.

Background

The museum is situated in the former castle kitchen of Hořovice Castle. It is part of the České muzeum hudby at Prague that provided the collection to the museum.