Digital Retro Park Museum of Digital Culture

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Digital Retro Park, museum of digital culture
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Data
place Offenbach am Main
Art
opening October 13, 2018
management
Stefan Pitsch, Thomas Daden, Manuel Hufer
Website

The Digital Retro Park, Museum for Digital Culture is a computer museum that opened in Offenbach am Main in 2018 . It is supported by the non-profit organization Digital Retro Park e. V. (DRP for short) run on a voluntary basis.

Exhibitions and events

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The museum presents its visitors with around 40 exhibits on around 200 m² , devices from the various ages of computer history, which visitors can try out and use. The devices can be found in three permanent exhibitions and a special exhibition with changing themes. Guided tours are also offered.

In the museum there are also lectures and workshops in the area of ​​the Commons Cafe . Once a month there is the opportunity to play on the retro rodeo and on various consoles and computers.

history

At a retro computing meeting in the Rhine-Main area in 2010, the HomeCon, the desire arose to set up a museum to pass on knowledge about the devices, their technology, their history and their influence on our lives today. This gave rise to the “Digital Retro Park” project. This was a collaboration between two associations, the “For Amusement Only e. V. ”in Seligenstadt and the“ Ersten Hanauer Netzwerkclub e. V. “in Hanau .

Since 2011 individual exhibitions of various kinds have been organized, such as the adventure tent on the Rochusmarkt in Seligenstadt, as a decoration in a bookstore or in the Cinemaxx in Offenbach for the start of Ralph's film . The first major exhibition took place in 2013 for over three months in the industrial museum in Großauheim under the title "Digital RETROculture - How Computers Conquered Households".

At the beginning of 2014, the Digital Retro Park was officially founded as a non-profit association in Offenbach and since then has also been running a workshop in the artist colony of the “Zollamt Studios” together with members of the Offenbach maker scene . The association received support in collecting start-up capital for the museum through a campaign by the crowdfunding initiative “kulturMut” on an internet platform.

In 2015 the DPR opened the six-week exhibition “ATARI - The Good Years” in the Zollamt studios, where almost all exhibits were freely accessible to visitors. In addition, cultural events were offered on four evenings to accompany the exhibition.

Suitable premises for the museum were sought over the next three years. During this time, further solo exhibitions were held, including in the Flipper and Arcade Museum in Seligenstadt on the topics of "30 Years Macintosh", "Star Wars - The Power of Pixels" and "35 Years C64 / Coffee Gossip with Chris Huelsbeck " for a few months as a special exhibition at Experimenta in Frankfurt am Main . The DRP was represented five times at the developer fair “Macaun” in Frankfurt and several times at the “Bended Realites” festivals in Offenbach, the “Make Rhein-Main” and the Frankfurt “ComicCon”.

Web links

Commons : Digital Retro Park  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claudia Isabel Rittel: Old computers and new digital culture. Frankfurter Rundschau, October 11, 2018, accessed on November 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ In this museum you can try out historical computers. Frankfurter Neue Presse, October 13, 2018, accessed on November 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Back to the future. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Offenbach city administration, culture and tourism: Digital Retro Park and Commons Cafe. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
  5. ↑ In summer, time for…. Digital retro park. In: webweek & Make Rhein-Main. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
  6. ↑ exhibition "Digital Retro Culture - How Computer households conquered". Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
  7. ^ Roman Kessler: Digital Retro Park. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Pictures from the category "ATARI -" The good years ", housewarming". Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Special exhibition 30 years of Mac in the Pinball and Arcade Museum Seligenstadt. In: For Amusement Only e. V. April 13, 2014, accessed November 10, 2019 .
  10. ↑ STAR WARS - The power of pixels. In: For Amusement Only e. V. January 5, 2017, accessed November 10, 2019 .
  11. ↑ 50 Shades of Chris. In: For Amusement Only e. V. October 10, 2017, accessed November 10, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Ortwin Gentz: Macoun 2018: Developer Conference on Cocoa and Swift. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
  13. ↑ bended'13. In: bendmakechange. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Digital Retro Park. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .

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