Audio Museum 'House of Vintage Music'

About museum

Audio Museum 'House of Vintage Music' — the largest interactive museum of retro audio equipment in the world. Visitors can see many interesting and rare vintage pieces: gramophones, phonographs, radiolas, reel-to-reel and cassette tape recorders, and more. All of them are arranged in 3 themed halls dedicated to specific periods in the development of musical devices from the late 19th century to the 1980s.

All the exhibits of the new capital museum come from a private collection that was assembled over more than 20 years and has already reached 400 devices and 3,000 vinyl records. Guests can hear the stories of old, unusual and rare audio devices, see the largest and the smallest records in the world, Thomas Edison's 1900 phonograph, Jean‑Paul Belmondo's record player, a 'Philips' radio receiver from a James Bond film, equipment from the studio where The Beatles recorded, as well as other American, European and domestic vintage devices.

All the exhibits in the audio museum have retained excellent 'vocal' qualities; each has its own distinctive sound. Visitors can hear the voices of bygone eras from authentic records, rare musical works recorded on shellac cylinders, vinyl records, reels and cassettes.

In addition, the concert hall hosts concerts, lectures, theatrical evenings, creative meetings with artists and even screenings of silent films with live scoring and a tape operator. And in the interactive photo zone, styled in the spirit of the 1960s–1970s, guests can immerse themselves in the past by watching Soviet programs on a retro TV and calling a friend on a rotary phone, or relax by leafing through vintage books and magazines.