There have been a lot of museums put up in honor of a lot of things in recent years. But this one unique museum has been established to preserve one of the most mundane things in life: sounds. The project by Fast Company is called “Conserve the Sounds”. It is a museum that catalogues the sounds made by outdated objects that have faded from our collective memory.
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The project has been called “an online museum for vanishing and endangered sounds,” according to a description on the official website. Most of the sounds that have been preserved are from vintage items and outdated items. This includes a foldable city map, a window crank handle for a car, and many other items that people take for granted. Because of the fast changing times, and the obsolete nature of the most common things, these sounds could be lost forever.
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The project was created by Daniel Chun and Jan Derksen. They own a media agency and they believe that sound branding can play a large role in the future. Among the most compelling sounds included in the museum includes things from the 1900’s up to the early 2000’s. There is the sounds made by a GAF View-Master from the 1960’s, a cassette recorder form the 1970’s, a walkman from the 1980’s, and a slide projector from the 1990’s. The most recent additions has been the sounds Polaroid camera and a Canon EOC camera from the 2000’s. While fairly recent, these gadgets could be on their way out.