•It was born thanks to the cooperation of University of Parma, Comune of Parma, and with funds (approximately 2 million Euros) provided by Casa della Musica, Italian Governement and Cariparma Foundation
•The institutional goal is to display the famous Patanè’s
Collection of vintage grammophones
and radios, made available by
CNIT (National Italian Consortium for Telecommunications)
•It is also a research lab about electroacoustics,
equipped with the latest
technologies for sound recording and reproduction
employing a large number of channels