The music recording industry was born in Camden. This Berlin museum traces RCA-Victor’s rise and fall

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! A museum about the RCA-Victor company has opened in Berlin, New Jersey, just a few miles from where the stereo and TV equipment maker was born in Camden. The Victor Museum, tracing the company from the birth of the Victrola hand-cranked turntable in the 1890s to the collapse of the RCA corporation in the 1980s, has opened in a former office building on White Horse Pike. It is the latest expansion for entrepreneur Graham Alexander, who bought the rights to the Victor Talking Machine Company name a decade ago with an ambition to bring the music industry back to Camden. Alexander has already opened the Victor Vault, a music performance venue, a recording studio and a record label using the century-old brand name. “We were there for so long that we had an opportunity to expand and make a greater experience that people could be part of,” he said. “They really seem to like the h