Radio- und Telefonmuseum Wertingen
Municipal museum in Wertingen with hundreds of mostly working tube radios, gramophones and telephones, plus its own medium-wave transmitter.
Over het museum
The impetus for the Wertingen radio museum came from the collector Heinz Hippele of Geratshofen, who donated his tube radios and records to the town of Wertingen. Shortly afterwards the family of the Meitingen collector Hans Wald gave the town around 160 more radios from the 1920s to the 1940s. After the rooms on the second floor of the former vocational and music school on Fèrestraße were prepared, the exhibition opened in 2012. Today it also includes the collection of the Augsburg collector Heinz Maxzin with tube radios and radio detectors.
Since January 2015 a telephone museum has complemented the house. Its core is a long-term loan from the Postlerhütte Augsburg, a circle of former Telekom employees. On around 64 square meters it shows the development of telecommunications technology, from the oldest device from 1898 and a cylinder telephone by Siemens & Halske to Morse apparatus, coin-operated telephones, teleprinters and rotary selectors, up to the yellow phone booth.
The radio collection now comprises several hundred devices: tube radios from the 1920s onward, crystal receivers, gramophones, radio-phonograph consoles, jukeboxes, tape recorders and records from shellac to vinyl. Most of the devices still work. The museum is run by volunteer radio and television technicians and collectors, who also give talks. On opening days, the museum's own local transmitter broadcasts a program on medium wave 801 kHz that can be heard with the receivers on display.
Hoogtepunten
- Several hundred mostly working tube radios from the 1920s onward
- Own museum transmitter on medium wave 801 kHz
- Jukeboxes, gramophones and radio-phonograph consoles
- Telephone museum with a device from 1898, teleprinters and a yellow phone booth
- Monthly talks on the history of radio and wireless communication
Vaste collectie
- Radiomuseum – Sammlungen Hippele, Wald und Maxzin – Five rooms display tube radios, crystal receivers, gramophones, radio-phonograph consoles, jukeboxes and tape recorders, many of them still in operation.
- Telefonmuseum – Sammlung Postlerhütte Augsburg – A separate room shows the development of telecommunications with Morse apparatus, a switchboard, coin-operated telephones, teleprinters and a yellow phone booth.
- Opgericht
- 2012
- Beheerder
- Stadt Wertingen
Toegangsprijzen & kortingen
De toegang is gratis.
| Groepen | –Group tours by arrangement through the Wertingen city administration (tel. 08272 84-196). |
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Free admission.
Toegankelijkheid
- Rolstoeltoegankelijk: geen informatie
- Lift: geen informatie
- Aangepast toilet: geen informatie
- Gehandicaptenparkeerplaats: geen informatie
- Hulphonden welkom: geen informatie
- Tastmodellen / voelbare objecten: geen informatie
- Rondleidingen in gebarentaal: geen informatie
- Informatie in eenvoudige taal: geen informatie
- Audiodescriptie: geen informatie
The exhibition is on the second floor of the building.
Kinderen & gezin
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Bereikbaarheid & parkeren
The museum is in the former vocational and music school on Fèrestraße, next to the elementary and secondary schools. By car, drive toward the hospital, turn left onto Hans-Wertinger-Straße at the priority road that bends away, and then left again onto Fèrestraße.
Route plannenService & horeca
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Evenementen & zaalverhuur
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Je bezoek plannen
| Rondleidingen | ja |
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| Goed om te weten | Tours at any time by registration through the Wertingen city administration (tel. 08272 84-196). On Sunday opening days there is usually a talk at 15:00; the museum transmitter on MW 801 kHz can then be received in the surrounding area. |
