Top of the World
The Eboardmuseum, founded in 1987 by the musician, mathematics teacher and engineer Gert Prix, is a collection of electronic keyboard instruments. It very quickly outgrew the original venue and, in 2007, the collection was moved into a hall at the fair area in the centre of Klagenfurt am Wörthersee in Austria and is now considered to be the largest museum of its kind worldwide. In 2010, the Eboardmuseum was honored with the Austrian "Museumsguetesiegel" seal of quality. At the invitation of Google, the Eboardmuseum has been participating in the Music, Makers & Machines project as part of Google Arts & Culture since March 2021. As part of this project, it presents a small selection of its exhibits, accompanied by video examples.
Meanwhile, the EBOARDMUSEUM is number one in the world, the largest museum of its species, where about 2,000 exhibits are not behind glass or in showcases, but where visitors are invited to try out the instruments and mix their fingerprints with those of world stars. This is also unique!
As unique as the visitors of the museum, who also involve themselves in the meantime hundreds of concerts directly in the EBOARDMUSEUM in such an appreciative and respectful way that one finally knows as a museum operator, for what one invests 60 weekly hours voluntarily...
