German Record Museum, Technology museum in Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Germany.
The German Record Museum occupies the boiler house of the former Teldec record factory on Niedernstraße in Nortorf. Since opening on 1 October 2022 it has spread across roughly 800 m², up from 80 m² at its old site on Jungfernstieg. Displays include parts of record presses, films on record and cassette production, and thousands of sound carriers from shellac discs to CDs.
Record production in Nortorf began in 1948, when Telefunken Schallplatten GmbH moved from Berlin into a converted leather factory and pressed records on a rebuilt leather press, making 24,278 in the first year. In June 1950 the millionth record was pressed and TELDEC was founded in Hamburg, its name formed from Telefunken and Decca Records. The last shellac record was pressed in 1959; by 1987 the plant had turned out 850,000,000 shellac and vinyl records with 1,000 people on the payroll.
The place shows how people listened to and collected music at home over decades, from early records to vinyl LPs. The equipment on display tells the story of a daily relationship with music that is completely different today.
The museum occupies the boiler house of the former Teldec record factory on Niedernstraße, with around 800 m² of exhibition space across the building. The collection is spread over several floors, including an upper floor with the old pharmacy and town-history exhibits, so allow time to work through them.
The original boiler house from the former factory still stands on site and can be visited. Here you can directly understand how the factory operated back then.
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