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The Audeum Audio Museum in Seoul is the world’s first museum dedicated exclusively to the history of sound and audio equipment, spanning from the 19th century to the present.
The Audeum Audio Museum in Seoul is the world’s first museum dedicated exclusively to the history and experience of sound, housing an extensive collection of audio equipment from the 19th century to the present.
Established by Michael Chung, as a tribute to his father, an acoustician and the founder of Silbatone Acoustic.Â
Designed by renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, the building itself is a work of art, featuring an exterior composed of aluminum pipes that create a forest-like atmosphere and produce varying visual effects under different lighting conditions.
The interior spaces were meticulously crafted with careful attention to acoustics, enhancing the auditory experience throughout its seven floors.
The museum houses an extensive collection of sound equipment, including Edison’s phonograph, speakers from 1937, and one of its most striking exhibits: gigantic four-meter-tall horn-shaped speaker systems used with The Jazz Singer (1927), the film that marked the end of the silent cinema era.
Rather than functioning as a traditional museum, Audeum offers a multisensory experience that engages all five human senses, presenting sound as both a cultural phenomenon and a historical journey.
