A disconcerting time for Nepal's only music museum

After 25 years of bringing diverse folk musical instruments together, the Nepali Folk Musical Instrument Museum is looking towards an uncertain future.

Folk musical instruments are an integral part and experience of diverse Nepali cultures and traditions. When Ram Prasad Kadel envisioned a folk music museum, he believed the stories surrounding folk instruments would educate people about diverse communities and their practices. And his museum would be instrumental in preserving such stories for future generations. And for the past 25 years, his museum, Nepali Folk Musical Instrument Museum, undertook that task independently. But today, the museum is struggling to save its purpose.