Edison's RED GEM phonograph, D Model, 1910

The collection of phonographs containing also models of the first sets is relatively large. Peculiarity of the collection is a phonograph playing one cylinder after inserting a coin or a miniature phonograph Lioret for playing special short cylinders. The collection also contains cylinder dictating recorders.
The collection of gramophones contains the whole range of mechanical and electric devices. The most interesting of them are copies of one of the first Berliner manual gramophones, three fully functional Pathefones and a stereophonic mechanical gramophone from the 30s of ULTRAPHON. A masterpiece of the collection is the table gramophone of the firm His Master's Voice with so-called Lumiere membrane. Interesting is also the collection of miniature collapsible mechanical gramophones.
The collection of electric gramophones contains several table single-speed machines for playing standard records and several gramophone changers from the 30s and 40s. The Czechoslovak post-war production is well represented mainly by products of the factory TESLA Litovel (today ETA, Elektro-Praga Hlinsko).
The collection of tape recorders shows the development of magnetic recording of sound from the oldest wirephones to the most modern tape recorders of both Czechoslovak and foreign provenance. An interesting item in the collection is a blattnerfon for sound recording on a steel tape used in our Radio at the turn of 30s and 40s. The collection of tape recorders contains also studio sets. A peculiarity of the collection is an apparatus for recording and reproduction of sound of the system Philips-Miller.
Video technique is represented by cassette and reel video tape recorders of various system. The collection is completed with several cameras and other accessories.