Facts & Figures

The Arne Dørumsgaard collection was bought in 1984 for the token sum of 1 Norwegian kroner 
(16 US cents or 12 EUR cents).

The Institute manages one of the biggest private collections available to the public in the world. It includes:

• 120,000 LP records
• 60,000 78 RPM records
• 8,000 magnetic reel tapes
• 5,000 video and audio cassettes
• 5,000 music books, record catalogues and magazines
• an exhibition of 40 different Tandberg reel to reel tape recorders
• play-back machines for all kinds of analogue formats

Full time employees: 2

Catalogue: covers approximately 20% of the holdings

Volume: about 95 cubic meters  or ... 44 metric tonnes of music material.

Established: 1984

Hired its first full-time employee: 1989, 
the second was hired in 2006. 

Officially opened its new premises: June 6th, 2003.

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