Skip to content
Yale Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments, New Haven, CT

Photo: Nick Allen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.

Museums

Yale Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments

A Yale School of Music museum of instruments from many cultures and eras, founded in 1900.

15 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511 · New Haven, CT

About Yale Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments

Housed at Yale School of Music in New Haven, this collection gathers instruments from many cultures and time periods, from ancient examples to modern ones. Its holdings are used for study, research, performances, and public exhibits, and some restored instruments are played in concerts. The collection grew through major gifts and acquisitions over the twentieth century and now holds more than 1,000 instruments. It is currently closed for renovation, with a reopening projected for spring 2027, though its online gallery remains available.

  • #musical instruments
  • #museum
  • #Yale
  • #New Haven
  • #music history

What's around here?

The closest stops to Yale Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments, ordered by straight-line distance. A few more like it, plus some different kinds of fun so you can build a full day.

  • Museums

    Connecticut Children's Museum

    Under $25

    A hands-on children's museum in New Haven with interactive exhibit rooms and a library of children's books.

    0.3 mi awayMore like this

  • Museums
    Family Favorite

    Yale Peabody Museum

    No admission fee

    See a mounted Brontosaurus, the 110-foot Age of Reptiles mural and galleries on ancient civilizations at Yale's natural history museum.

    Transit: reachable by public transit

    0.4 mi awayMore like this

  • Museums
    Rainy-Day Pick

    Yale University Art Gallery

    No admission fee

    See van Gogh's The Night Cafe and art from ancient to modern in a free university museum on Chapel Street.

    Transit: reachable by public transit

    0.5 mi awayMore like this

  • Eat & Drink
    Foodie Favorite

    Louis' Lunch

    No admission fee

    Order a hamburger sandwich on toast, cooked in 1898 cast-iron vertical broilers, with no ketchup offered.

    Transit: reachable by public transit

    0.5 mi awaySwitch it up: Eat & Drink

  • Eat & Drink
    Foodie Favorite

    Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana

    Under $25

    Order a coal-fired white clam pizza or original tomato pie at the 1925 Wooster Street pizzeria that started it all.

    Transit: reachable by public transit

    0.7 mi awaySwitch it up: Eat & Drink

  • Attractions
    Family Favorite

    It Adventure Ropes Course

    $25–$50

    Indoor ropes course inside Jordan's Furniture in New Haven, with more than 100 elements, 180-foot zip rails and climbing walls on a five-story frame.

    Transit: reachable by public transit

    1.8 mi awaySwitch it up: Attractions

Near Yale Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments

More of the same kind

Keep exploring