RadioMuseum Cologne

The RadioMuseum is located in the basement of this building

The Radio Museum Cologne in Cologne district of Dellbrück shows the historical development of broadcasting.

history

In 1999 the funding company Radiomuseum Köln e. V. founded. It was decided to build a radio museum and make it accessible to the public. The aim was to use the exhibits to show how radio had its beginnings via local transmitters that could be received via detector radios with headphones . This was followed by radios that enabled reception with electron tubes . But initially they lacked a loudspeaker, so that you also needed headphones to listen.

collection

The radio museum makes the development of radio technology transparent from the beginning to the present day. It has a wide range of items from the earliest gadgets to fancy modern transistor radios . The collection of the Radio Museum Cologne comprises around 4,000 exhibits.

From January 19 to June 5, 2016, 22 selected exhibits from the holdings of the RadioMuseum Cologne were exhibited in the special exhibition RADIO Zeit tube devices, design icons, internet radio in the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne .

See also

• List of broadcasting museums

literature

• Romana Breuer, Petra Hesse (Hrsg.): Radio Zeit - tube devices design icons Internet radio . 1st edition. Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-7356-0175-9 , pp. 191 (exhibition catalog).

Web links

Commons : RadioMuseum Köln  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Radio Museum Cologne accessed on February 24, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fundus Museum. Archived from the original on March 2, 2014 ; accessed on February 24, 2014 . 
2. ↑ MAKK - RADIO time tube devices, design icons, internet radio (exhibition from January 19 to June 5, 2016) , accessed on February 27, 2016

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 58.8 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 30.6 ″  E