Samsung Innovation Museum 10th Anniversary... 500,000 Visitors in 10 Years

Opened in April 2014
Visited by over 19,400 teams from 180 countries
State guests from 23 countries also visited
Exhibiting 150,000 items including Edison’s light bulb

Samsung Electronics' Electronics Industry History Museum, the Samsung Innovation Museum, has celebrated its 10th anniversary since opening.

Samsung Electronics' Electronics Industry History Museum, 'Samsung Innovation Museum,' which allows visitors to see the history of the electronics industry at a glance and celebrated its 10th anniversary, announced on the 10th that since its opening in April 2014, it has welcomed over 500,000 visitors from more than 19,400 teams across 180 countries over the past decade. The photo shows actual artifacts exhibited at the Samsung Innovation Museum. Photo by Samsung Electronics

According to Samsung Electronics on the 10th, the Samsung Innovation Museum, located at Samsung Electronics headquarters (Suwon Campus), has welcomed over 500,000 visitors from more than 180 countries and approximately 19,400 teams over the past 10 years since its opening in April 2014.

State guests from 23 countries have also visited, including Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey; Sebasti?n Pi?era, former President of Chile; Nikenike Vurobaravu, President of Vanuatu; and Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica.

Samsung Electronics established the Samsung Innovation Museum to highlight inventors and the role of companies that contributed to the electronics industry and its development process. The museum spans five floors with a total area of 10,950 square meters. Each floor features exhibition halls themed around the Era of Inventors, the Era of Corporate Innovation, and the Era of Creation, along with the Samsung Electronics History Hall.

At the exhibition halls, visitors can see various original artifacts such as the "Leyden jar capacitor" invented in 1746 by Pieter van Musschenbroek (Netherlands) and Ewald Georg von Kleist (Germany); light bulbs from the 1890s to 1990s created by Thomas Edison; the wireless telegraph "Maggie" by Guglielmo Marconi (Italy), who pioneered the wireless communication era; and the first mobile phone "DynaTAC 8000X" introduced by Motorola in 1983.

Also on display are early 20th-century household appliances that laid the foundation for modern electronics, including the "electric motor washing machine" mass-produced in 1911 (Maytag Electric, USA), the "Monitor-Top refrigerator" which began production in 1929 and became a million-seller (General Electric, USA), and RCA's 630TS model, known as the first mass-produced TV and first color TV, along with the RCA CT100 model.

Recently, a customer donated a 1985 Samsung "Multipurpose 5S Refrigerator" that has been used by three generations over nearly 40 years, drawing attention. The Samsung Innovation Museum has collected a total of approximately 150,000 products and artifacts to date.

The Samsung Innovation Museum also operates educational programs on various topics such as the history of vacuum cleaners and the principles of static electricity, designed for all age groups from children to middle and high school students and families. As of October last year, the total number of educational program sessions held reached 1,664.

Last year, it was selected as an "Outstanding Institution for Educational Donation Participation" jointly by the Ministry of Education and the Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Creativity. It also received the "Educational Donation Award" hosted by the Ministry of Education in 2015, 2017, and 2020. Representative programs include the "Children's Laboratory," where elementary students create teaching aids to understand types and principles of semiconductors in daily life; the "Family Smart Classroom," where families participate together to build infrared robots and remote controls; and the "Online Electronics Industry History Museum," where participants create artifact model kits themselves.

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