Name: Cancelled until further notice: Switzerland – a Country of Sound Pioneers
Start: 2019-12-29T15:00:00Z
End: 2019-12-29T16:00:00Z
Location: Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

Exhibition

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

Automaton Music 4.0. 4 décennies, 4 thèmes, une exposition et des perspectives musicales

Today: 11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

26 March 2019 - 01 March 2020

April 1979 saw the opening of the Museum of Music Automatons founded by Dr. h.c. Heinrich Weiss-Stauffacher. Initially run as a private museum, it became a state institution in 1990 when the founder donated it to the Swiss Confederation.

To mark its anniversary, the museum in Seewen, Canton Solothurn, is presenting four thematic focuses under the heading «Automaton Music 4.0», each theme being presented in turn over the course of the exhibition. Automatons, cylinder and disc music boxes, musical souvenirs and finally Swiss railway station music boxes offer a retrospective of forty years of collecting and mediation.

The museum will, of course, continue to offer visitors fascinating live demonstrations of its music automatons during the daily guided tours. However, the name of the anniversary exhibition – by analogy with «Industry 4.0» (i.e. the fourth industrial revolution) – suggests that some content in the Museum of Music Automatons will in future be presented via new media – not least in the newly designed ballroom, due to reopen in autumn 2019. That said, a visit to the «melodic Museum» will continue to offer a combination of traditional museum experience with a unique musical dimension.

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Clown mit Schirm, Detailaufnahme, Figurenautomat, Vichy, Paris/F (1878), © Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen SO
Älteres Paar auf Parkbank, Detailaufnahme, Figurenautomat, Vichy, Paris/F (um 1900), © Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen SO
Ausschnitt aus einer Schweizer Musikdose, © Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen SO

Museum

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

OpenClosed | 11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Bollhübel 1, 4206 Seewen SO

T.: +41 58 466 78 80

musikautomaten@bak.admin.ch
www.musikautomaten.ch/mma/en/home.html

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Opening Hours

In accordance with the guidelines of the federal and cantonal authorities, the museum is open in compliance with the recommended measures concerning hygiene and distancing behavior - and with an adapted program.

Institution

Enticing musical exhibition of a world-famous collection: mechanical music automata between the opposing poles of precision technology and the magic of old melodies.

1-hour guided tours (in german)

Admission

CHF 15.–/6.– (incl. guided tour)

Museums-PASS-Musées Free admission

Swiss Museum Pass Free admission

Access

train from Basel SBB > Liestal or Dornach/Arlesheim or Grellingen, change to post bus > Seewen, Musikautomaten or Seewen, Zelgli (post bus 111; then 10 min. of walk; www.sbb.ch)

Accessibility

Der Zugang zum Museum und der gesamte Innenbereich sind barrierefrei.

Shop

T.: +41 58 466 78 91

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Catering

Restaurant «Museum of Music Automatons»

T.: +41 61 911 14 00

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Für Gruppen auf Anfrage auch ausserhalb der regulären Öffnungszeiten.
An den Matineesonntagen servieren wir Ihnen von 9 bis 11.30 Uhr ein reichhaltiges «Buure z’Morge».

Mediation

Christoph E. Hänggi

T.: +41 58 466 78 80

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Media

Christoph E. Hänggi / Verena Schaltenbrand Obrecht

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Exhibition

Ein Orchestrion der Firma Decap Antwerpen/B das eine kleine Jazzkaplle imitiert

Exhibition

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

Switzerland - a Country of Sound Pioneers

Permanent exhibition

The perforated disc began its brief career in mechanical music in the 1880s in Leipzig, This new simplified sound production system was cheaper to produce and allowed for a wider, and more topical music repertoire. Also Swiss companies produced disc music boxes for the world market.