The Museum of Music is a unique museum among the museums of St. Petersburg. It is located in the famous Sheremetev's Palace.

In 1989, Sheremetev's Palace was given to the St. Petersburg Museum of Theater and Music to house the State collection of musical instruments and to found the Museum of Music. In the later 1980s, restoration works began in order to reconstruct the official and memorial interiors of the 19 th century.

In 1995, the permanent exhibition "Sheremetevs and St. Petersburg's Music in the 18 th -20 th Centuries" was opened in Sheremetev's Palace. The exhibits were provided by the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the Russian National Library, the Pushkin Research center, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Ostankino Palace, the Museum of Russian Porcelain in Kuskovo and owners of private collections.

St. Petersburg's collection of musical instruments includes 3 thousand exhibits. In the museum, you may see and hear Russian bells, copies of Ancient musical instruments made in the 19 th century from the originals found during the excavations of Etruscan cities. The exquisite Baroque shapes of European musical instruments of the 17 th -18 th centuries – old harps, violas and harpsichords – wonderfully match the architectural style of the palace, the light ornaments of the cast iron fence, the carved stucco of recently restored interiors.

The famous collection of musical instruments in this Baroque building can be seen as a new stage in the musical and historical records of the Fountain House which still reminds us about the famous actors and musicians of the past, about the famous historians, painters and architects. Most rooms of Sheremetev's Palace which had been given to the museum in a terrible condition have already been restored.

The palace became a popular site of concerts of chamber and symphonic music.