An updated permanent exhibition presenting our television history, which took two years to prepare, has opened in the Estonian Broadcasting Museum in Turi.
Juhan Sihver has been the head and leader of the Broadcasting Museum since its foundation, that is, almost 25 years. The first television exhibition opened in 2005 and presented the museum’s collection. But the new exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of the development of television up to 2021 through historical technical tools, photographic and video material.
“It’s no longer an exhibition to see what we’ve managed to gather, but it’s still an exhibition that talks about the history of television,” Sihver explained.
The first television program was broadcast in Estonia on July 19, 1955, but the television signal began to be received much earlier, as early as 1930.
“At the time, remote viewing devices with a Nipkow disc were built, with which the television image of Berlin, London and Moscow could be captured,” explains Sihver.
“When Eesti Televisioon was founded in 1955, television became a real pop object and everyone wanted to buy one. The newspaper informed that if you have a family of four, then this KVN has exactly the right screen size. And if still you didn’t If you didn’t have enough, you could buy a magnifying glass, put the TV in front of you and see an image 1.5 times bigger,” Sihver described.
At the exhibition on the history of television you can visit three television studios, outside there are photos of people who left their mark on the TV lock, cameras and many other equipment. But Juhan Sihver also considers the televisions donated by ordinary Estonians to be very important.
“We would be happy if plasma and LCD televisions gradually began to arrive here too. Before taking them to the landfill or the dustbin you can contact us, because maybe we are the museum that is happy with something like this and we can also show it to others” , Sihver said.
2024-01-08 19:26:00
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