Music Industry Techno museum to open in Frankfurt "Music is the key to technology," Brian Eno once said. And true to this maxim, Frankfurt is set to become the home of Germany's first museum for electronic music. But a stereotypical museum this most certainly is not. Symbolbild Techno Mayday. Copyright: Thomas Frey/dpa/bildfunk Germany's biggest indoor electronic rave 'Mayday,' which annually welcomes 20,000 to 25,000 visitors The MOMEM - or Museum of Modern Electronic Music - is scheduled to open in 2017 in the heart of the techno metropolis of Frankfurt, reaffirming German's place as the spiritual home of electronic music. In the spirit of the innovative musical form, the museum will shrug off traditional museum exhibition traits and instead offer a space which invites visitors into the sensory world of electronic music, exploring many aspects of the musical form. Thematically it will tell the story of the history and cultural relevance of the form. Andreas Tomalla - aka Talla 2XLC - is the driving force behind the museum. Widely credited for inventing the word "techno," Tomalla pioneered the form with his "Techno Party" events in the 1980s. He remains active as a trance DJ and producer, and is the first honorary chairman of the Friends of MOMEM. According to organizers, the museum will include exhibitions as well as interactive elements for visitors. Also, DJ workshops will be held regularly and, channeling the soul of the club, there will be regular live events. The city of Frankfurt has leased the space to the MOMEM free of charge - on the premises of the city's Children's Museum - however the museum will be self-funded, with no financial support from the city.
The dancefloor at the Robert Johnson, Frankfurt's foremost club for electronic music.
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Cities the world over open museums that reflect the tastes of their inhabitants: Berlin has a museum dedicated to sausages, Manila has a selfie museum (see Get Your Selfie Sticks Out, a Selfie Museum Opens in the Philippines), and Frankfurt is about to get an institution dedicated to electronic music, Deutsche Welle reports.

Scheduled to open in 2017, the MOMEM—short for Museum of Modern Electronic Music–reaffirms the centrality of techno to the German music scene, its club culture, and identity.

The museum will archive and display the history of electronic music, explain its cultural relevance, and offer a visitor experience in the innovative vein of the genre itself.

The museum states it will focus on the sensorial experience provided by techno, which makes the exhibition design sound a bit like clubbing made accessible for visitors of all ages.

MOMEM is the brainchild of Andreas Tomalla, who is widely credited for inventing the word “techno.”

Tomalla pioneered the form with his “Techno Party” events in the 1980s. He remains active as a trance DJ and producer, and is the first honorary chairman of the Friends of MOMEM.