German Automata Museum

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German Automata Museum - Gauselmann Collection
German Automata Museum - Gauselmann Collection
Entrance to the museum from the southwest
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place Espelkamp
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opening 1995
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The German Automata Museum (DAM) is a technology museum in the East Westphalian city ​​of Espelkamp .

history

The history of the Gauselmann Collection began in 1985 with the American music box AMI B from 1948. The next machines were bought at auctions worldwide. After just two years, the collection comprised over 400 exhibits. In 1988 the history of the coin-operated machines was also brought to life outside the company for the first time.

This first exhibition "When the penny falls ..." in the Deutsches Museum in Munich met with great public interest and marked the beginning of the project to show the public the roots of the coin-operated machine industry. The Gauselmann Museum opened its doors in 1995 at the headquarters of the Gauselmann Group in Espelkamp with almost 600 historical machines .

After the acquisition of an extensive collection from a German machine manufacturer at the end of 2001, the Gauselmann Museum was officially renamed the “German Machine Museum”.

In 2007 the German Machine Museum added another 650 unique machines from the collection of Jean-Claude Baudot, Paris. Part of this collection were not only slot machines , but also amusement and vending machines, historic wheels of fortune , lottery games and pinballs .

The DAM has been located at Schloss Benkhausen since October 2013 . Here, around 200 exhibits from the total of around 1,800 machines in the collection are presented to the general public.

Exhibition areas

The collection presentation is divided into seven areas, each representing one type of machine:

  • Bajazzo (Germany from around 1905)

  • Slotmachnine War Eagle , USA 1931

  • Cheese vending machine, 1960s, Netherlands

See also

Web links

Commons : Deutsches Automatenmuseum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About us. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 17, 2013 ; accessed on January 28, 2014 .
  2. ↑ The exhibition. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 17, 2013 ; accessed on January 28, 2014 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 39.4 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 33.7"  E