The Rupriikki Media Museum is a

history museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...

devoted to mass communication. It is located in the

Vapriikki Museum Centre The Vapriikki Museum Centre (Finnish language, Finnish: ''Museokeskus Vapriikki'') is a cluster of museums operating in the old factory premises of Tampella, in Tampere, Finland. The name ''Vapriikki'' derives from the Swedish language, Swedish ...

, in Tampere, Finland. Rupriikki showcases media history. Collections include

cellular phones A mobile phone, cellular phone, cell phone, cellphone, handphone, hand phone or pocket phone, sometimes shortened to simply mobile, cell, or just phone, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while ...

radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmi ...

telephone A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into e ...

s, computers, and press materials.

History

The museum was created in 2001 when the

City of Tampere Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population ...

, the

University of Tampere The University of Tampere (UTA) ( fi, Tampereen yliopisto (Tay), ) was a public university in Tampere, Finland that was merged with Tampere University of Technology to create the new Tampere University on 1 January 2019. The university offered u ...

, telephone company

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and newspaper ''

Aamulehti (Finnish for "morning newspaper") is a Finnish-language daily newspaper published in Tampere, Finland. History and profile ''Aamulehti'' was founded in 1881 to "improve the position of the Finnish people and the Finnish language" during Russ ...

'' partnered together. The museum opened in 2003.

Exhibitions

The museum has a permanent exhibition about the history of mass communication.Museot.fi - Rupriikki Media Museum
/ref> It is broken up into thematic sections. The exhibition "Messages from Pirkanmaa" focuses on the development of mass communication, including newspapers, radio, television, and digital games. "Networked Humanity" is a story of networking and its evolution throughout time. "The Gaming Man" is an exhibition on the long history of games and playing. Moreover, Rupriikki's new exhibition approaches media phenomena through devices that visitors can try out or play with. In the past, Rupriikki also had rotating exhibitions. They had an exhibition about

Commodore computer Commodore International (other names include Commodore International Limited) was an American home computer and electronics manufacturer founded by Jack Tramiel. Commodore International (CI), along with its subsidiary Commodore Business Mach ...

s in 2006. The exhibition featured ten working Commodores which visitors could play. The museum also had an exhibition celebrating the tenth anniversary of the conference.

Collections

At the time of the museum's opening, the majority of the IT objects were donated by the local computer club.

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