INFORMATION

• addressKaede Bldg. 1F, 2-3-6 Uchi-Kanda, Chiyoda City, Tokyo
• tel03-5256-5700
• business_hourWeekdays: 11:00 a.m.–11:00 p.m.
  Closed Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, and irregular holidays
  Note: As this museum is sometimes used for a shooting studio, check the calendar on the website in advance.
• access3-minute walk from JR Kanda Sta. West Exit
  5-minute walk from Subway Otemachi Sta. Exit A2

Nostalgic flip phones are lined up. You can feel nostalgic with retro devices at Extinct Media Museum.

Extinct Media Museum is located 3-minute walk from JR/Subway Kanda Station or 5-minute walk from Subway Otemachi Station. This private museum collects and exhibits media devices that have become extinct or are becoming extinct with the evolution of technology based on the idea that all media other than paper and stone will become extinct.

The museum houses approximately 1,500 pieces of media devices such as recording media like movie and photo cameras, typewriters, personal computers, floppy disks, music players, cell phones, cassette tapes are on display. The exhibition space is filled with the collection on the first floor and staircase, and even on the floor below the staircase, making it an outstanding place to view the collection. You can see the exhibits of many familiar and nostalgic cell phones. You may find the same model that you used to use.

Among the wide variety of media equipment on display, the home-use motion picture camera section has a particularly large exhibit space. From 8mm film cameras (9.5mm, double 8, single 8 and super 8) to video cameras (Betamax, VHS-C, 8mm videos, DV) and to memory cameras, they are displayed separated by decade so that you can understand the evolution of technology.

The same models of cameras used in famous films are also on display, such as the video camera carried by Marty, the main character in Back to the Future and the 8mm camera from Steven Spielberg's autobiographical film Fablemans. In addition, there is a corner where they exhibit Mac of which Steve Jobs led the development of in chronological order. Even if you are not familiar with media devices, you can fully enjoy this museum because it is well thought out.

There is also a library corner and you can sit down reading. There are a lot of books on the history of media devices and the culture. You can pick up the devices displayed there freely and shoot photos and videos then you can record them as a memory posting them on social media or your blog.

Extinct Media Museum, where you can feel the history through the evolution of media devices. You can talk about your memories back then looking at nostalgic media devices. If you like cameras and PCs, you are a history lover or interested in retro goods or you want to feel nostalgy, please visit Extinct Media Museum.