A new mobile phone museum has opened in Slovakia.
Tourists who visit the vintage cellphone museum will have a trip down memory lane – to when cellphones weighed more than today’s computers and most people couldn’t afford them.
Twenty-six year-old online marketing specialist Stefan Polgari began his collection more than two years ago when he bought a stock of old cellphones online. Today, his collection boasts some 1,500 models, or 3,500 pieces when counting duplicates.
The museum, which takes up two rooms in his house in the small eastern town of Dobsina, opened last year.
The collection includes the Nokia 3310, which recently got a facelift and re-release, as well as a fully functional, 20-year old, brick-like Siemens S4 model, which cost a whopping 23,000 Slovak koruna (NZD$1200) – more than twice the average monthly wage in Slovakia when it came out.
“It’s hard to say which phone is most valuable to me, perhaps the Nokia 350i Star Wars edition,” said Mr Polgari – who uses an iPhone in his daily life.
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16 Responses
I like NEW cellphones
That would be so much fun
Lots of cellphones at this museum.
who would have thought
cool
That is awesome
I think there is nothing wrong with cheaper old phones people are so wasteful getting silly new phones that break if you simply poke them just to show off! Nokias’ are better than iphone sevens.
Wow that is cool I want to see it
i personally prefer the Apple iPhone’s
why would you do it on cellphones
why was it inventerd
that is my future job… Or maybe a phone library… ohhhhh. Good ideas!
choice
choice! gr8 idea bros
This is weird and cool at the same time! its a lot of money to spend on old phones.
Where is it?