Deutsches Rundfunk-Museum, Broadcasting museum at Berlin Funkturm, Germany.
The Deutsches Rundfunk-Museum was a broadcasting museum that occupied the former transmitter building at the Berlin Funkturm from 1967 to 1997. Its permanent exhibition "50 Jahre Deutscher Rundfunk" traced five decades of German radio, supplemented by special shows such as "Rundfunk in aller Welt" and "Entartete Musik". The collection later moved to Berlin-Adlershof and in 2000 to Potsdam-Babelsberg; the museum is closed.
The museum was founded in 1967 and initially operated in a former broadcasting building near Funkturm. After several relocations, the museum's original operation ended, but portions of its collection continued in other institutions.
The exhibition showed how radio and television shaped German daily life across different decades. Visitors could see which programs people preferred to listen to and watch during various periods.
The museum no longer exists in its original form and cannot be visited in the traditional way. Those interested in the collection can inquire about the Berlin Broadcasting Archive and the Technoseum in Mannheim, where portions of the exhibition have been relocated.
The museum's special exhibition "Rundfunkpropaganda im Zweiten Weltkrieg – Wortschlacht über Deutschland" dealt with radio propaganda in World War II. The collection later moved to Berlin-Adlershof and in 2000 to Potsdam-Babelsberg; since 2007 the museum has appeared at the IFA trade fair in Berlin, where about 60,000 visitors were counted at its stand between 2007 and 2010.
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