who we are
A museum that tells how rock has ignited social, cultural and political change through original instruments, songs and stories that still resonate today.
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Permanent Exhibition
Here, rock is not merely a soundtrack:
it is a living archive of collective memory. From the blues of the forties to the guitars that filled stadiums, we trace decades of revolts, censures, movements and ways of life that this music shook to the core.
02 – (Coming soon)
Temporary Exhibition
In this exhibition, rock becomes a time machine: we enter through the door of Back to the Future and, piece by piece, discover how records, images and artists were ahead of their time long before the world was ready to listen.
03
Beyond the Visit
Listening clubs, family workshops, conversations with musicians and researchers, guided visits… The museum’s programme offers ever-new reasons to return and see rock from fresh angles.
Every activity is placed at some point in this sonic history of a revolt, inviting it to speak to the present.
A museum that puts rock in context
We are a cultural space that holds a unique collection of legendary guitars and instruments, and uses them to explain how rock has shaped generations, challenged power and opened up new ways of imagining the world.
Every guitar, every album cover and every audio fragment is a piece of a story about civil rights, countercultures, feminisms, LGTBIQ+ struggles and everything that sounded out when someone decided enough was enough.
The exhibition:
A journey through decades of rock and revolt
Original guitars and basses
of key figures of the genre
The permanent exhibition follows a chronological thread: from the Afro-American origins and the shock of rock’n’roll in the fifties, through Woodstock and the protests of the sixties, the punk that questions everything, stadium hard rock and metal, to the mutations of the genre in the twenty-first century.
Spaces dedicated to movements,
scenes and historic moments
Along the way, visitors will hear tracks and encounter original guitars and instruments linked to key artists and moments, alongside documents and images that help explain what was at stake behind every riff.
From blues to stadiums:
a critical timeline
The Rock Museum offers a reading of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through songs, records and scenes that sounded out while other things were happening in the street: wars, dictatorships, civil rights movements, and new ways of loving and living.
Tickets
Choose how you want
to experience the museum
We want the museum to be a plan you can easily
share: with a partner, friends, family
or school groups.
Leaving the Rock Museum means leaving with the feeling that those songs you knew by heart suddenly have a new story behind them.
We want every visit to be just that:
a way of recognising yourself in a sonic revolt that still shapes the way we think, dress, love and move through the world.