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Rupriikki Media Museum
Rupriikki Media Museum’s permanent exhibition presents the history of mass communications, a journey into the world of the telephone, radio, television, the press and the computer, with the aid of examples from Tampere.
Weaving a net – the history of the Internet
The new exhibition “Weaving a net – the history of the Internet” will examine the history of networking, social media, hacking and gaming culture. The exhibition also reflects on how information technology has changed our lives.
People communicate together through direct interaction various mediums. The new media has tried to spread information as easily and quickly as possible and to as many people as possible. The history of networked media goes straight back to the emergence of the earliest mass communications. Interconnection, which spanned geographic borders and was almost real time, was achieved with the telegraph in the 1830s.
The “Weaving a net – the history of the Internet” exhibition at Rupriikki Media Museum sets the scene from the birth of the networks at the time of the telegraph to the network that has achieved overwhelming popularity – the Internet. You can learn about the new phenomenal inventions on the Internet, such as social media, through interviews with users and developers of these new services. You can try and touch displayed objects yourself and play, for instance, classic games using the Arcade Games Machine.
Rupriikki Media Museum is located in the historic Finlayson factory area in the heart of the City of Tampere. You can also visit TR1 in the same building as Rupriikki Media Museum. TR1 offers views of visual and media arts, design, handicrafts, and photographic art. Information on the topical exhibitions and events is available at: www.tampere.fi/tr1.
The museum operates in association with the City of Tampere, Aamulehti (Finnish newspaper published in Tampere), the University of Tampere and Pirkanmaan Journalistit ry (regional non-profit-making association of journalists). Through this exceptional partnership, the museum has gathered a large and valuable collection and deep and comprehensive expertise in both the past and the present of mass communications. Rupriikki Media Museum is a member of the traffic and communications museum association, Trafiikki ry.
Opening hours:
Tu-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat-Sun 11am-6pm, Mon closed.
Admission:
Adults EUR 5, children and students EUR 1,
children under the age of 7 free
Friday Free Admission!
Contact details:
Address: Väinö Linnan aukio 13, Tampere,
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Tel. +358 3 565 66411
rupriikki@tampere.fi
