Rupriikki Media Museum

Rupriikki Media Museum

Entrance to Rupriikki Media Museum
Established 2001
Location Tampere, Finland
Coordinates 61°30′07″N 23°45′35″E / 61.501944°N 23.759722°E
Type Media history museum
Visitors ~25 900 (in year 2012)[1]
Website http://rupriikki.tampere.fi
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The Rupriikki Media Museum is a history museum devoted to mass communication. It is located in the Finlayson Centre, in Tampere, Finland.[2] The museum features exhibitions about journalism and the history of the internet. Their collections include cellular phones, radios, telephones, computers, and press materials.[3]

History

The museum was created in 2001 when the City of Tampere, the University of Tampere, telephone company Elisa and newspaper Aamulehti partnered together. The museum opened in 2003.[4]

Exhibitions

The museum has a permanent exhibition about the history of mass communication.[5] It is broken up into thematic sections. The internet technology section examines three areas of IT use: work, daily life, and gaming. It was co-designed with the museum and the Department of Hypermedia Studies at the University of Tampere. It examines the evolution of computer technology in regards to video game culture, personal computers, and computer memory.[4] The museum works with nearby visual arts museum TR1. The museum also works with computer scientists and computer hobbyists to develop exhibitions and programs.[4]

Rupriikki also has rotating exhibitions. They had an exhibition about Commodore computers in 2006. The exhibition featured ten working Commodores which visitors could play. The museum also had an exhibition celebrating the tenth anniversary of the MindTrek conference.[4]

Collections

At the time of the museums opening, the majority of the IT objects were donated by the local computer club.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Finnish Museum Statistics 2012" (in Finnish). National Board of Antiquities. p. 42. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  2. ↑ Rupriikki Media Museum in Tampere, Finland - Lonely Planet
  3. ↑ Christopher H. Sterling (25 September 2009). Encyclopedia of Journalism. SAGE Publications. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-7619-2957-4. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 John Impagliazzo; Timo Järvi; Petri Paju (23 October 2009). History of Nordic Computing 2: Second IFIP WG 9.7 Conference, HiNC 2, Turku, Finland, August 21-23, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Springer. pp. 305–306. ISBN 978-3-642-03756-6. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
  5. ↑ Museot.fi - Rupriikki Media Museum

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Coordinates: 61°30′7″N 23°45′35″E / 61.50194°N 23.75972°E