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New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to an overwhelming collection of historical art objects, including a mummy mask from 60 A.D., Greek bronzes from the 8th century B.C. and the original “Washington Crossing the Delaware” painting. Starting April 8th, it will also welcome a different type of antiques — from the guitar Chuck Berry used to record “Johnny B. Goode” to the knives Keith Emerson would stab into his Hammond organ during the crazier Emerson, Lake & Palmer days.

In these days of GarageBand and samplers, it’s easy to forget that nearly all pop music, especially rock & roll, was once banged out on instruments made of wood or metal. The primitive quality of the music was matched by the construction of the instruments, an idea rammed home repeatedly in “Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll,” which collects both iconic and lesser-known guitars, percussion instruments, keyboards, amplifiers and even posters from the last roughly 60 years of rock.