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Welcome to the Museum of Obsolete Media

A unique online museum of physical media formats showcasing developments in audio, video, film and data storage.

The Museum preserves the memory of those objects that held our memories, and every format listed in the Museum is represented by at least one example in the collection.

  • Star Soccer Notts County v Walsall, monochrome 50 Hz
    Electronic Video Recording (EVR)
  • 3M Sound-on-Slide
  • Big Top Peanut Butter (Procter & Gamble, 1958)
    Procter & Gamble punched discount coupon
  • When The Snow Birds Cross the Valley (Baritone solo - orchestra accompaniment) 5412 (10-inch, single-sided) (n.d.)
    Busy Bee Record
  • Kinora reel 501 by Kinora Co. Ltd.
    Kinora reel
  • Michael Jackson : Thriller (Epic ESS61118) (1995) on 3.5-inch high-density floppy disk
    Music Screeners disk
  • Willie Shoemaker Hosts a Week at the Races: a Videodisc Game (1983)
    RCA CED VideoDisc interactive
  • Sports! (2014)
    LeapTV cartridge
  • The Beatles: 1962–1966 (edited) (2023)
    Yoto card
  • T 3 Affe im Haushalt (Monkey in the household)
    Mini Movi
  • Hasbro CommTech Star Wars Episode 1 chip (1999)
    CommTech Chip
  • RCA MI-12877 cartridge
    RCA MI-12877 cartridge
  • Polaroid Polachrome Instant Color Slide Film, 12 exposures (HCP-135-12) (expired January 1990)
    Polaroid Polachrome film
  • Columbia brown wax cylinder
  • Various Artists: Classic in Beat for UD-4 [Denon 4GX-9005] (1974)
    UD-4 quadraphonic record
  • 828 film
  • Tue-Vue Roll-a-Show movie viewer cartridge – Wood Woodpecker No. 2 "Rope Tricks"
    Tru-Vue Roll-a-Show
  • Kodak 120 film (upright) and 220 film
    120 and 220 photographic film rolls
  • Video Cassette Recording (VCR)
  • SNK Neo Geo AES Art of Fighting 2 (1994) ROM cartridge with SNK Neo Geo AEA memory card NEO-IC8 2 KB
    Neo Geo AES cartridge and memory card
  • Sharp Magnetic Bubble Memory CE-100B 128 KB
    Sharp Magnetic Bubble Memory
  • Magazine for 36 slides for use with Minomat projector c.1962 - 1970
    Minox film slides
  • Freckles and His Friends
    Movie-Jecktor
  • Flaw: Payback (2001)
    V-Lite
  • Kodak Instamatic 33 camera (c.1968-1973) with Kodacolor-X colour negative film, 20 exposures, ASA 80 (expired January 1971)
    126 film and Kodak Instamatic camera 
  • Marvel Heroes Character card (Wolverine) (2006)
    Mattel Hyperscan Game Card

About the Museum

Read more about the background and ethos behind this unique online museum and the physical collection it is based on.

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Transcription Services

Organisations offering services to transcribe information from legacy media, and in some cases offering restoration services.

View the list of transcription services

Media Wanted

Visit the list of media still wanted for the collection, and get in touch if you may have something to donate.

View the list of media wanted

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Latest media

  • Commodore 8-bit cassette (1977 – 1994)
  • IBM 3592 (2003 – )
  • V-Lite (1997 – 2002)
  • LeapTV (2014 – 2020)
  • Canon Optical Card (1990 – early 1990s)

 

 

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