Tucked away on Oswald Redlich Street in Innsbruck is a modest but extremely pleasant museum, a visit to which gives everyone a rush of nostalgia. It is the Radio Museum, which opened in 2005 with the participation of the mayor of Innsbruck, Hilde Zak.
The museum director, Hans Schuchter, began to take an interest in radio engineering in childhood, according to him, in 1955, when his parents bought him, a little boy, his first radio receiver. Since then, it became his hobby, and later his profession as well - Hans became an electronics engineer working with television equipment and radio technology. Throughout his life he continued to collect receivers and everything connected with them.
After 50 years, the private collection amounted to more than one and a half thousand items, so the idea of creating a museum turned out to be quite logical and natural. Unfortunately, the small size of the premises does not allow all the exhibits to be shown to visitors at once; no more than 450 pieces are displayed at the same time.
The models presented in the Radio Museum cover eight decades of history - from the first radio station in Tyrol, put into operation in 1927, to the present day. These vintage devices deserve attention even if you are not a radio enthusiast. Vacuum tubes and transistors may look archaic, but they are also very charming and touching.
