RTV Slovenia Museum Collection
Background
The first manager to establish the collection was Dušica Erzin when the premises of the archive were housed at Dalmatinova Street 8 in Ljubljana. Eventually, the exhibition moved to the current location at the RTV Slovenia, where in 2005 the opening of the first part of the exhibition took place. The current venue is more accessible to the public and allows possible enlargments of the collection with more exhibits from the depo in future.
Collection Overview
The collection of the selected technical equipment includes radios, transmiters, microphones and one of the very first television sets, originating from 1960s. The most interesting exhibit is a marble plated carbon microphone made by Reiss and which was in use at the Radio Ljubljana from 1928 to 1941. The same microphone was used in October 1928 when Radio Ljubljana broadcasted for the first time and when the writers Fran S. Finžgar and Oton Župančič were the first ones to be heard speaking live on the radio.
The exhibits devoted to the intersting development of the radio present an exciting rapid development in the mass media technologoy. The power of radio is symbolized with the replica of the simple equipment used by the resistance radio Kričač, the single informative illegal radio station in the occupied Europe during the Second World War.