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The reading room
• 40 seats for reading
• 650 linear meters of open shelves
• 27 multimedia stations
• about 700 square meters floor space overall

The patrimony
• Historical Archive: more than 1,000 linear meters of documents dating from 1651 to the present; registers, correspondence, posters, playbills, programs and an archive of press and reviews dating from 1910 to the present
• Photographic Archive: more than 20,000 photographs dating from the mid-19th century to the present
• Multimedia Library: 120,000 volumes, including 7,000 manuscripts, libretti, periodicals and scores
• Ethno-musicological Archives: about 2,000 audio hours; the most important Italian archive of music from national, European and non-European oral traditions
• Museum of Musical Instruments and Iconography: about 400 objects, including 270 ancient instruments and 130 objects, mementos, paintings and drawings related to music 

Digital documents

• Historical Archive: 70,000 images from the pre-unification Archive
• Photographic Archive: 10,300 images
• Library: 102,000 images of manuscripts
• Ethno-musicology Archives: about 4,100 MP3 files
• Museum of Musical Instruments and Iconography: digitalization of photos made during campaigns to restore and document the instruments; a total of 2,000 files