Sound Leisure, the manufacturer of classic jukeboxes, provided a number of its machines to the new Terra Technica museum in the Czech Republic.
The museum’s founder, Ronnie Seunig, described it as a “time travel museum” and is divided into eras, from the late 19th century through to the modern day. It features “jukeboxes, pinballs and more”.
Chris Black, managing director of Sound Leisure, said: “Our company is represented in the museum with an early Regency console and wall box from the 1980s, a Route 66 and a Beatles Yellow Submarine from the 90s and we are busy preparing a Starlite 21 and other machines to be sent across shortly.”
The museum covers 8,500sq.m and features machines and other relevant items from each period including bars and cars; such as a Model T Ford, the original Batmobile and the last car owned by Stan Laurel. The museum also covers a large section of the amusement industry as we know it today, with pinball machines, computers, early video games and hand-held video games.
“The opening night was amazing,” added Black. “At one point I stood back and just watched - people were dancing around the jukebox that was pumping out some great 50s’ tunes and then the live swing band arrived on stage and everyone danced to them. Ronnie and his team have definitely achieved something special, on the evening I was there it definitely lived up to the theme of a time-travel museum.”
