For several decades around the world, the gramophone record was the main medium for music playback. With the advent of tape-based information carriers, and later compact discs and various computer formats, vinyl records became a thing of the past, but not forever. To this day they remain, if not quite as relevant, still a fairly popular audio medium. Vinyl turntables continue to be sold, and many audiophiles believe that the analog sound of a record is much better than digital.
On the outskirts of the village of Veskovo, in the Pereslavsky District, the amazing Museum of Gramophones and Gramophone Records opened quite recently, because this is just as much a historical object and a work of art as, for example, a painting, a book, or a sculpture.
The museum has an impressive collection of antique gramophones, many of which are still in working condition. There is even the very first portable gramophone made in France by the Pathé brothers.
If you think you know a lot about vinyl records and players, visit the Museum of Gramophones and Gramophone Records. You will see such curiosities as electrophones, phonolas, radiolas, a cabinet gramophone, phonographs, and other masterful vintage pieces that will immerse you in the mysterious history of sound engineering.
