Nepali Folk Musical Instrument Museum — Attraction in Kathmandu Metropolitan City

If you have any interest in culture, music, archivism, and good stories, you must MUST visit this place. Call ahead, book an appointment. The museum itself is a bit hard to find (it is in the Laxmishwor Mahadeb temple in the Teku neighborhood of Kathmandu) but it is absolutely worth your visit. I don’t think words can very well sum up the overwhelming admiration and respect I felt upon meeting Ram at his Music Museum of Nepal but I will try.

With little to no outside help from the government or anyone else, Ram Prasad Kadel has singlehandedly put together a collection of hundreds (if not thousands) of unique musical instruments. Like a Nepali Alan Lomax, he has curated a collection of recordings and instruments of a wide breadth and variety. Many of these instruments are in varying stages of playability because, in his words, he didn’t want to take functional musical instruments away from people who play them. But he has a wide collection of fascinating instruments and he will happily walk you through and showcase as many as he can (he does play a mean conch shell).

As you will learn, Nepali folk music is presently in a bind. The guide books don’t talk about it - you’ll mostly find information about rock bands in Kathmandu bars. But the folk traditions are numerous, spanning many different ethnic groups; but few people currently play folk music, and the people who still do are dying out. What you find at the Nepal Museum of Music is not a full blown spectacle, rather it is a living, breathing work in progress. You’ll find the amazing work of a man who has spent years cataloging the folk traditions of his home country.

Ram also sells a copy of his book which showcases over 300 of these instruments and features beautiful hand-drawn illustrations. It is an artifact I will treasure for many...

One of the most important place for music lover, specially for the folk nepal musical instrument lover. The place where you can seen a lots of cultural, historical, social musical instrument. These instrument represent the whole Nepal from east to west, and from north to south. They are collecting the folk and ancient Nepali musical instrument since the date of 2052 BS and have collected more then 600 purely Nepali musical instrument. Since there is no any proper rules and system in Nepal to conserve the historic monument, meah while The Nepali Folk Musical Instrument Museum and its Team are doing a great job in the field of conservative of historic Nepali musical instrument. More the 120 cast of people live in Nepal and the have their own musical instrument as like they have their own language, songs, dance, religious, culture, and of course music. So, such musical instrument playa huge role in the festivals and in the ceremonies. There is no any single festival or any culture/religious events that has no use of musical instrument, so you can imagine the importance of such musical instrument. But still they have to needs to do a lot of works to manage such collected instrument. Not only them all of the related responsible authority and others too need to do a lot of works to conserve such the...

I gave this place a five star because you can get a really great opportunity to see and learn about the Nepali folk musical Instrument. There is a fee to visit a museum 1 day pass :- General 100NRS, Student:- 50NRS Foreign:- 1000NRS Member:- Free. If you have a kids please take them in here so they get a chance to know the folk musical instruments of Nepal. The staff are friendly as well as helpful. They guided you and gave a brief description about the instruments. They also play some of the folk instruments to entertain the visitors. This museum is at the historical building so the visitors also get a really good chance to see the historical building of Nepal. If you want to buy books about the musical instruments you can get in here. If you have a friend who came to visit you or if you guys want to spend some time with your love one by getting some new things you definitely have to go in here. If you want to know more please go through the picture which I have uploaded. Just go and enjoy your days and learn...