The Foyle Menuhin Archive comprises scores, letters, photographs, paintings, engravings, press cuttings, memorabilia and other items collected by or relating to the life of the violinist, Yehudi Menuhin HonRAM (1916-99). It was acquired in 2004 with the kind support of the Foyle Foundation, Sir John Ritblat KBE HonFRAM and an anonymous donor.

Read more about some of the most interesting iconographic items from the Foyle Menuhin Archive

Read more about one of the past exhibitions based on the material from the Foyle Menuhin Archive

Access:

The Foyle Menuhin Archive is available for consultation by appointment only. The catalogue of music, books and manuscripts is currently available as part of the Academy Online Library Catalogue; the catalogue of archival material such as correspondence and concert programmes is not available online, but staff will be pleased to help with research enquiries.

Parts of the Archive are digitised and available on Apollo catalogue. The material held on Apollo from this collection is particularly rich in material regarding the violinist Nicolò Paganini. Please follow the links below for one of the quick Apollo searches of the Archive.

Art and iconography – caricatures; drawings; engravings; lithographs; portraits (of Menuhin and other musicians); musical scenes; photographs; prints; printed material; silhouettes; venues and landscape views
Documents – broadsheets, citations, certificates, playbills, posters, programmes, letters, newspaper reviews and reports with full text transcriptions (Paganini); coat-of-arms (Menuhin)
Objects – medals, medallions, plaques and other commemorative items