Design Museum makes the Sony Walkman a museum piece

The Sony Walkman is a museum piece – it’s official. The Design Museum London has added the classic cassette player to its collection alongside other classic gadgets from years past.

The Design Museum has added 13 new and classic products to its collection ahead of its 2014 relocation to the Commonwealth Institute in Kensington.

They include several gadgets, both new and old, that should be familiar to Stuff readers – joining the collection are Taito’s Space Invaders arcade machine (1978), the Regency TR-1 radio from Texas Instruments (1954), the first-generation Kindle from Amazon (2007) and the Olivetti Valentine typewriter (1969).

Want to see how the Sony Walkman has evolved over the years? Have a look at our Gadget Flashback.

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Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home