Other On-line Hearing Aid Museums

Other On-line Hearing Aid Museums

There are a few other good hearing aid museums besides the Hugh Hetherington On-line Hearing Aid Museum. Here are the links to some of them.

On-line Museums

The Kenneth W. Berger Hearing Aid Museum and Archives is housed at Kent State University, Ohio, USA.

Deafness in Disguise is housed in the Bernard Becker Medical Library at the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Also check out their  small, but unique, virtual reality hearing aid museum where you can view in 3D (at just about any angle or size) 20 different old hearing aids. Very impressive!

The Rosalind N. and David Myers Hearing Aid Collection is an extensive collection of early hearing aids. It is housed in the John Q. Adams Center for the History of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery at Alexandria, Virginia, USA.

The Bakken Library and Museum contains a collection of 115 hearing aids and related items. It is housed at "The Bakken—A Library and Museum of Electricity in Life" in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Phisick Medical Antiques contains a number of non-electric hearing aids—beautiful and rare ear trumpets and domes and related items. Click on each item and you'll be able to see several views of each hearing aid.

One Web-page Museum Histories

The Eriksholm Museum is one of the most complete hearing aid museums. It is housed in Oticon's facility in Denmark. Their on-line presence is limited to one page on their website.

The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom was set up in 1948 and began giving out free hearing aids from the start. This one-page museum shows the various models they have handled over the years.

The Hearing Center Online has a one-page history of hearing aids.

History of Hearing Aids (in Japanese) or History of Hearing Aids (translated into English) (but realize it comes out in broken English) has a long (as in 78 printed pages long) one-page history of hearing aids.  The pictures in this history are mostly taken from other published sources. (Since this page has well over 200 pictures and also needs to be translated, it takes a while to load—so be patient.)

Otorinolaringologia is in Italian. The first two-thirds of this page is an illustrated history of hearing aids, or read a "rough" English translation Hearing Aids—Audiology (automatically translated into "broken" English by Google).