The museum houses a vast collection of machines and antique electrical appliances used by humans to listen to music a century ago. In addition to close-up viewing, visitors can also enjoy antique music and the beautiful melodies produced by phonographs over a century ago. The first floor primarily features electric audio equipment, while the attic is dedicated to the collection of ancient manual audio devices. The antique exhibits are sourced from around the world, and some of the antiques can still be operated manually without any power or light source. The museum displays over two hundred items, including the first generation of cylinder phonographs, the world’s first cassette recorder, vulcanized 78 RPM records, table-top hand-cranked organs, hand-cranked music boxes, hand-cranked telephones, vacuum tube radios, transistor radios, World War II record players, rotating spherical fluorescent screen televisions, jukeboxes, and turntables for playing vinyl records. The Phonograph Museum’s exhibits bear witness to the development of audio equipment from manual operation to electrical power, spanning over a century of audio equipment history. Opening hours and business status are subject to the day’s actual opening conditions.
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