46-year-old apple, museums have opened all over the world

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On June 2, an Apple-1 computer began a 10-day online auction on the global shopping site eBay.

In the collector’s copy of the original Apple-1 certification form, the machine has its own exclusive number – 89. Apple-1 No. 89 is not only in good working order, with most of the parts being original from that year, but also with the autograph of “author” Steve Wozniak on the motherboard.

Introduced in July 1976, the Apple-1, named the “best value microcomputer,” was designed by Steve Wozniak, assembled in Jobs’ parents’ garage, and listed for $666 , about 175 units were sold at the time. In the past three years, Apple-1 has achieved outstanding results at auction, and the auction price of Apple-1 similar to this auction can reach as high as 736,862 US dollars (about 5 million yuan).

A replica of the Apple-1, also signed by Steve Wozniak, has been in the news recently.

Unlike auction items that are inaccessible to the general public, this Apple-1 replica is the jewel of the recently opened Polish Apple Museum. As long as you spend 47-85 yuan for tickets, you can see these expensive Apple products with your own eyes.

Museums scattered around the world that gather rare Apple products are “paradise” for Apple loyal fans. Next, start with the newest and hottest Polish Apple Museum, and introduce 3 Apple Museums not to be missed.

The latest and greatest Polish Apple Museum

Originally scheduled to open in mid-April, the Polish Apple Museum (Apple Museum Polska), which dragged on until May 28, finally met the public, was not officially operated or authorized by Apple, and the media also gave it a special title—— Unofficial Apple Museum.

The Polish Apple Museum, which claims to have “the largest and most complete collection of apples in the world”, brings together 1,600 exhibits and more than 100 hours of video materials. However, its predecessor was the small house of Polish collector Jacek Lupina.

Jacek is 56 years old, and his first contact with Apple products was in 1995. At that time, he was a student at the School of Architecture at Rhodes University of Technology. In order to prepare his graduation thesis, he bought the first Apple computer-Power Macintosh 7200.

However, it was the auction experience that took place on April 1, 2014 that put Jacek on his way as an Apple collector. He described the experience as a sentimental journey — he bought an old 2003 Power Macintosh G4 MDD, a machine that reminded him of the G3 from the same series he had sold.

For Jacek, who grew up in Poland, Apple products were too expensive when he was growing up, and now he can get along with these Apple products day and night, and this can’t control the excitement that he began to collect Apple products like crazy.

Since then, Jacek has read the history of Apple’s product iterations while spending all his spare time on the hobby of Apple collecting – sometimes spending nights at auctions around the world in different time zones.

Apple collecting is a very expensive hobby. Jacek often says he doesn’t have any savings left, just these Apple collectibles.

I’m broke (for collecting Apple products), but this is my passion.

—Jacek Lupina

After a while, these Apple collections filled Jacek’s house on the outskirts of Warsaw – initially confined to his office, gradually spreading into the living room, and soon taking up almost all the space. Jacek even sold all the furniture in the living room for this, leaving only a few armchairs to make room for his Apple collection.

It wasn’t until Jacek’s daily life that his Apple collection became so numerous that he realized that there were only two paths in front of him – either sell most of the collection and return to normal life, or expand and show the collection to those who wanted to. To understand the public of Apple’s history.

Fortunately, Jacek chose the latter. So on June 3, 2017, the first and only Apple Museum in Poland opened for free in Jacek’s refurbished house.

At the time, Jacek was still working from home as a freelancer, working in the computer graphics arts industry. As long as visitors make an appointment for a visit in advance, Jacek will be happy to introduce visitors to their apple collection.

Jacek, who has no sponsors, can only maintain the operation of the museum by selling peripheral products such as posters he made in the museum and earning meager profits.

Since then, Norbert Cała, a tech god, has joined in, providing essential support for Jacek’s Apple Museum.

Norbert is not only one of the founders of iMagazine, a top technology magazine in Poland, and the manager of iPod.info.pl, the earliest iPod-themed blog in Poland, and currently runs a technology website Techlove. He himself has a collection of at least 100 iPods, and he wants to own his favorite red iPod whenever it appears.

Regarding the collection of Apple products, Norbert prefers to collect small devices, which just makes up for the imbalance in the category of Jacek’s computer-based collection.

Thanks to the efforts of the two men, the Polish Apple Museum in a former metal processing factory in Warsaw was finally completed. Local Polish architect Julian Wandzilak was brought in to design the exhibition space. According to a picture Julian posted on Instagram a year ago, the Apple Museum at the time was very well laid out.

The Apple collectibles exhibiting for the first time mainly include Apple, Macintosh and NeXT computers, as well as Apple products such as iPhone, iPod, iPad and user manuals. On the walls of the pavilion, there are also dated Apple advertisements, including the most famous 1997 “Think Different” series of posters.

Perhaps due to limited funds, the location of the Polish Apple Museum is not advantageous – not only is it a distance from the center of Warsaw, but it is also hidden on the second floor of the Plater building of the Norbryn factory. You need to follow many arrows to find the exhibition. Entrance.

With only 350 square meters of interior space, there was a noticeable crowding problem on the opening night – invited guests packed the entire pavilion, and a similar situation occurred on the afternoon of the first public opening day.

▲ The Polish Apple Museum on the opening day. Image via: Instagram @julianwandzilak

But thinking about the courage and efforts of Julian Wandzilak, a super Apple fan behind the Apple Museum, as well as the public’s love and support for Apple products, I believe that these defects are only temporary, and this Apple Museum will get better and better.

The museum also released a cool video on March 22, when it was officially opened. The last sentence of the film used Jobs’ most famous quote – Stay hungry, Stay foolish.

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The textbook Prague Apple Museum

If the time goes back to 2020, I am afraid that Jacek Lupina would not dare to say that his Polish Apple Museum has the most complete collection of apples, because there was also the Apple Museum Prague in the world at that time.

From Apple’s founding in 1976 to 2011, when Steve Jobs died, almost every computer, printer, mouse, mobile device and software produced by Apple can be found in this museum. It is said that only one Apple Lisa 1 is missing because Damaged during shipping.

The most popular in the pavilion are the 3 long display tables, which fully display the historical evolution of the iPod, iPhone and iPad in a timeline. There’s also a dotted wall that presents Apple’s product evolution over 40 years in chronological order.

The Prague Apple Museum not only has a complete range of Apple products, but also collects objects related to important historical events of Apple and many peripheral products.

An ordinary looking calculator was displayed at the entrance of the exhibition, but the display board with the description text read “HP-65: The calculator that saved Apple”. Because in 1976, Steve Wozniak sold the calculator he designed in exchange for the necessary funds to create Apple.

Unlike the Polish Apple Museum, which will give Steve Wozniak a lot of appearances, the Prague Apple Museum is simply Jobs’ personal stage – it is filled with Steve Jobs’ famous quotes inside and out, and you will immediately see Jobs when you enter the door. ‘s special portrait – a high-priced piece of 6 iMac G3 parts, plus a showroom celebrating Jobs’ return to Apple.

In the iPod booth, flashes were aimed at the first version of the product, signed by Jobs.

In the section introducing the iPad, the museum even stores all the costumes on Jobs’ body, the black sofa on the stage and the heavy first-generation iPad when he first released the iPad in 2010 in a transparent window, named “Jobs’ Favorite” “.

This sofa is not simple, it is the most classic LC3 of Italian home furnishing brand Cassina – avant-garde furniture designed by the architects Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand. And all the attire on the body, specifically a black St. Croix jumper, Levi’s jeans, Robert Marc glasses, New Balance sneakers, and the Smartwater that Jobs used to drink.

But unfortunately, the Prague Apple Museum will be permanently closed in June 2020. Overwhelmed by inquiries from fans, the museum gave reasons for the theft of the collection and photos of the thieves blocking the glasses.

However, Norbert Cała, an important figure behind the Polish Apple Museum and a technical consultant, found after some investigation that the exhibits claimed to have contributed by 8 collectors were in fact only owned by one owner – Czech businessman Miroslav Žáček, and the published The thief was an ex-wife with whom he had a son, so it was more of a liquidation than a simple theft.

Even though the current Prague Apple Museum exists in name only, the museum has launched an online 3D viewing service on the 9th anniversary of Jobs’ death through the images left at that time. At the moment of entering the museum, the recording of Jobs’ speech at Stanford University’s 2005 commencement ceremony was automatically played, and the memory journey about Apple and Jobs began.

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Apple-appreciated All About Apple Museum

The All About Apple Museum (AAA Museum for short) is a rare elder in the Apple Museum. In the past May, he turned 17 years old. You know, Apple is only 46 years old, and this museum and Apple have grown together for about 1/3 of the years.

This Apple Museum, which has more than 9,000 collections, was able to appear because of an accident. There’s a story behind it called “Take What You Like”.

In 2002, Alessio Ferraro, director of the AAA Museum, was also an IT consultant, and on the night of a friend’s retirement party, the friend took him to the abandoned warehouse of the Briano Computer Company and told him that he could take anything that interested him.

In that abandoned warehouse, there are a large number of Apple computers, the earliest can be traced back to the early days of Apple’s establishment. Ferraro, a loyal Apple fan, is naturally happy to bring these Apple products home.

Afterwards, Ferraro formed a group with friends who also love apples to gather everyone’s apple collection, and then they came up with the idea of ​​opening a museum.

On May 14, 2005, an Apple Museum with exhibits that visitors can touch and use was born in Savona, Italy. After several relocations over the next few years, it finally found a permanent location in 2015 – located near the University of Savona, with sufficient exhibition space and storage space.

The interior of the museum, designed by architect Luigi Lorenzini, is a far cry from the Apple Stores of today, and it lacks the curvaceous beauty typical of Italian design – it feels like walking into a quiet white, whether wood or glass is treated in white or white. Transparent colors, furniture is almost straight, like the clean background of early Apple posters.

Ferraro explained the style of the space: “It’s a tribute to the Cupertino Apple Park and the world-renowned Made in California.”

Why the special mention of the Cupertino Apple Park? Because the AAA Museum has had a “relationship” with the Cupertino Apple Park since its birth in 2005.

Although Apple’s executives have publicly refuted the concept of the museum, in June 2005, the museum’s secretariat received a call from the Cupertino Apple Park, saying that in order to celebrate the establishment of the museum, they decided to send an Apple spree.

The following year, Brett M., an Apple marketing manager who was in contact with the AAA Museum, also privately invited museum members to Cupertino to visit the Apple campus, praising the AAA Museum as “Apple’s ambassador in Italy” and “the largest Apple museum in the world.”

We’re big Apple fans, but the museum has grown so quickly that it’s no longer just a hobby, it’s become a passion, we can’t lose it, we know we have to grow.

—Alessio Ferraro

In addition to the Polish Apple Museum, the Prague Apple Museum and the All About Apple Museum, the Apple Museum in Moscow is famous for its collection of Apple products, the Apple Museum in MacPaw, the company behind CleanMyMac, and the AAPL Collection, an appointment-only private collection led by Dubai collector Jimmy Grewal. Museums and more.

These Apple museums organized by Apple fans, because they are “unofficial” and because of their heartfelt love for Apple products, have achieved an effect that the official museum may not be able to achieve – 46 years of Apple history has become inexhaustible The treasures of the exhibition are presented in different curatorial methods and design languages ​​in various places, continuously delivering inspiration and spiritual inspiration to the visiting public.

There is a popular saying that doesn’t know the origin – there are 3 apples that changed the world, the first is the forbidden fruit that seduced Eve, the second is the apple that smashed Newton, and the third is the apple that Jobs took a bite of.

If there is a 4th apple, will this apple be these Apple Museums? Will there be an invention or design that changes the world in the future, inspired by the Apple Museum?

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