The Eboardmuseum, founded in 1987 by the musician, mathematics teacher and engineer Gert Prix, is a collection of electronic keyboard instruments.
It very quickly outgrew the original venue and, in 2007, the collection was moved into a hall at the fair area in the centre of Klagenfurt am Wörthersee in Austria and is now considered to be the largest museum of its kind worldwide.
Focusing on electronic keyboards the Eboardmuseum covers the entire history of these instruments from a 1935 Hammond model A to an up-to-date Moog Voyager.
Among the exhibits there are numerous preliminary models and unique items such as a Hohner Clavinet, Rhodes Piano, Mellotron as well as original instruments from international stars like Keith Emerson (Emerson, Lake & Palmer), Geoff Downes (Asia), Rick Wakeman (Yes), Peter Wolf (Frank Zappa), Tangerine Dream, Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep), Dave Greenslade (Colosseum), Eddie Hardin (Spencer Davis Group), King Crimson, George Duke, Ray Charles, Opus and Grateful Dead.
In spite of its a relatively small auditorium, musicians such as Carl Palmer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Asia), Ian Paice (Deep Purple), Peter Ratzenbeck, Brian Auger, Wolfgang Ambros, Alex Ligertwood (Santana), Ken Hensley, Hans Theessink, Barbara Dennerlein, Nick Simper and Don Airey (Deep Purple) and Waterloo & Robinson have all performed on the Eboardmuseum stage.