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Post# 290098   7/24/2014 at 15:54 (3,535 days old) by Whirlpolf ()        

Please join me on my visit today:
I went to "TECHNOSEUM" (technology museum of Mannheim) to the special exhibition "the electric household".
Unfortunately, I discovered this only yesterday while it will end on Sunday.
So I hopped in the car to see it!

Here is the original link:
www.technoseum.de/ausstellungen/d...
Ok, they are bragging a bit ("we have Europe's largest vacuum collection with about 400 models") - I am pretty sure quite some many here can outdo this easily. Personally I know some guy with 480 privately owned machines.

Nevertheless, the lady (who can be seen on their page as well) was VERY friendly and served me free coffee made in a modern, yet retro-style percolator.
We chit-chatted along about this and that and then some other technical detail while I was taking pics meanwhile.

This exhibition made my day! I was humming the commercial tunes on my way back to the car ;-)

My photos can be found on the main link.

Enjoy!
Joe


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Post# 290101 , Reply# 1   7/24/2014 at 16:01 (3,535 days old) by Whirlpolf ()        
PS: I posted the same thread over at Automaticwasher.org

see there.

Post# 290104 , Reply# 2   7/24/2014 at 17:23 (3,535 days old) by funvacfan (Canada)        
Absolutely Phenomenal

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Collection! Thanks for taking so many great pictures.

Guy


Post# 290225 , Reply# 3   7/25/2014 at 16:39 (3,534 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN)        
museum

Amazing!Thanks!!

Post# 290347 , Reply# 4   7/26/2014 at 14:16 (3,533 days old) by DesertTortoise ()        

Please tell me those vacuums were taken directly from their production line and put in the museum. Gawd they look perfect. If they had working histories and still came out looking that beautiful I think I just might have to stop playing with vacuums, lol. I'm simply not worthy.

Post# 290906 , Reply# 5   7/29/2014 at 14:22 (3,530 days old) by whirlpolf ()        
Dircik, I hope you are just kidding "...not worthy"

Sorry for the delay, I had a busy weekend.
Well yes, most of the machines shown there DO have a working life history, some rare ones seem to have been bought NIB (and for a FILTHY amount of money, I guess).

But rest assured: This museum has refurbishing facilities people like us can only dream of (they put everything back together again, from a simple razor to a full-fledged power house with turbine and generator, they have a 2 dozen persons staff for this).

So: No worries, as far as I could see, only the Vampyrette flat-body machines, some VK 117 Vorwerk and one Progress vac were new as when having been bought. Anything else is done like some member here suggests: "Polishing plastic vacuums (or parts)."
Joe



Post# 290908 , Reply# 6   7/29/2014 at 15:07 (3,530 days old) by DesertTortoise ()        

I bow in humble awe. I am not worthy.


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