Relax, learn, and create! The Museum of Portable Sound Adult Colouring-In Book tells a mini-history of portable sound technologies through a series of patent drawings suitable for colouring in! Includes drawings of the first transistor radio, the ‘Miami Vice’ mobile phone, the Walkman, the iPod, and much more! Each drawing includes a descriptive object label,Continue reading “Our Adult Colouring-In Book Now Available”
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Free Audiobook: The How And Why Wonder Book Of Sound
Museum of Portable Sound Press has produced its first-ever audiobook, and you can listen to it for FREE on our Bandcamp page! You can also download a copy (and if you’d like to leave a donation, that would be swell!) This 1962 children’s book makes for a great listen, especially with our Director’s annotations andContinue reading “Free Audiobook: The How And Why Wonder Book Of Sound”
Visit Us Online!
Until further notice, due to the Covid-19 outbreak we will now be conducting visits to the Museum of Portable Sound exclusively online. You’ll still get the same one-on-one access you’re used to, but now it will be via the magic of video chat. Learn more and book your Online Visit!
Unlocking Our Sound Heritage at The Keep, Brighton, UK
Yesterday our staff had the honour of visiting The Keep Archives in Brighton, Sussex, home to one of the satellite offices of the British Library’s Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project is working to digitise analogue sound recordings for the UK-wide #SaveOurSounds archiving project. Our Acquisitions Team collected several sounds of the Keep’s recording and playbackContinue reading “Unlocking Our Sound Heritage at The Keep, Brighton, UK”
Appearing at V&A Friday Late: Sonic Boom, 22 February
Our Director and Chief Curator will be appearing twice at the upcoming Sonic Boom Friday late at the V&A museum in London on 22 February! First, Director Kannenberg will be participating in a panel discussion, ‘How Do You Listen In Museums?’ alongside V&A visiting researcher Eric de Visscher and V&A Senior Curator for Contemporary DesignContinue reading “Appearing at V&A Friday Late: Sonic Boom, 22 February”
Coming soon: The Record that Went to Space
We are thrilled to announce that this autumn, thanks to the cooperation of Ozma Records, we will present SOUNDS OF EARTH: THE RECORD THAT WENT TO SPACE. This special exhibition will consist of the twelve minute long montage of field recordings that was intended to represent what Earth sounds like in the event that extraContinue reading “Coming soon: The Record that Went to Space”
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