Museum of the Royal Academy of Music is located in a separate building next to the Academy, a short walk from Regent's Park. This is not just a collection of musical instruments and artifacts, but also a research center.

Royal Academy of Music itself - a conservatory, which is part of the University of London. It is based in 1822, in its current red-brick building is from 1911. The neighboring building, where the museum is located, was built in 1822 by John Nash as part of the main entrance of Regent's Park (York Gate). The interior was destroyed by Nazi bombs in 1940, but left the building looks exactly the way it was conceived Nash.

The museum has three permanent galleries. On the ground floor there is a collection of tools known musicians. There are exhibited baton and stopwatch outstanding English conductor Sir Henry Joseph Wood, percussion percussionist James "Jimmy" Blade recovered horn brilliant horn player Dennis Brain, crashed in 1957, the sports car after a concert at the Edinburgh Festival. Here, on the first floor, constantly changing themed temporary exhibitions.

The second floor is devoted to stringed instruments - here you can see masterpieces by Stradivari, Amati, Guarneri, Ruggeri, as well as drawings, prints, historical documents. On a separate stand presented the violin "Viotti" Stradivarius, created by the famous master in 1709 for the violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti. In 1928 it bought the collector, John Bruce, and in 2002 the son of a violin collector decided to give the state on account of the payment of inheritance tax. However, the market value of the masterpiece was much higher than the amount of tax. Then the famous figures of English culture appealed to the nation to gather the missing 2, 1 million pounds. For the first time in the history of Britain, the company has collected the same amount for the acquisition of a rarity.

The third floor is a gallery of the piano. Its exhibits show the stages of development of the English square piano in the first half of the XIX century, allow us to compare it with the elegant Viennese-style instruments. Piano All are in excellent condition and are used for demonstration of the sound.

For almost two centuries, the Academy has gained as a huge number of autographs, letters, engravings, are now in the museum. The core of this collection are original manuscripts by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Brahms, Purcell.