The challenge of this special issue is to bring together different perspectives, approaches, and methodologies demonstrating the necessity of interdisciplinary research in examining the display and visualization of art forms such as music and its histories. More specifically, this special issue takes the 1892 International Exhibition of Music and Drama in Vienna as a point of departure for investigating the multifaceted perspectives of music exhibitions, with special focus on the medium’s display practices and sociopolitical implications. However, exhibiting music as a tangible and as an intangible object in museums or venues specifically designed for the display of music is still today a common cultural practice. Thus, the primary aim of this special issue is to examine music exhibitions as historical and contemporary subjects of research, going beyond the disciplinary realms of musicology itself.