Music is an important part of rituals, holidays and daily life in Africa.

It sets the rhythm of work and is used for communication, hence the rich variety of music instruments in the collection. For many of them, a calabash or a gourd fruit is the main material used as a resonator.

Such instruments include the sanza and kora or an African lute additionally covered with cattle skin and decorated with kauri shells. 

A balafon, also known as a marimba, is also made of wood and gourd fruits.

There are characteristic tamtams or African drums in the corner. They are carved out of a single piece of wood on interesting caryatids.

A single-membrane meeting drum made of goatskin can be seen under the window.

On display by the exit from the room is a collection of fetish figurines to which Africans attribute magical powers: defensive, curative, fertility or those with the power to cast spells. They are made of wood and decorated with fragments of feathers, beads, nails or animal teeth, which intensify their power.