The Bowdenian Museum is interested in historical phonographic and mechanically reproduced music, including shellac gramophone records produced in Australia for international labels, wax phonograph cylinders, and pianola (player piano) rolls.

While still a work in progress, we hope to present our collection here for collectors, researchers, and enthusiasts.

Currently, a majority of our shellac records are playable on two of our Antiques & Anthropology collection items, a reproduction HMV gramophone (pictured) and a portable gramophone.

Simply click on a photo below to read more about each record!

To see our in-progress List of Shellac 78 Records as presented below, please Click Here.