Situated 50m to the left from the top of Drosselgasse, this fun museum has a collection of 350 18th- and 19th-century mechanical musical instruments that play themselves as you’re shown around on the compulsory 45-minute tour.
Siegfried’s Mechanisches Musikkabinett
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