The “Kounadis Archive Virtual Museum” constitutes an approach to the phonograph era and 78 rpm discography from the perspective of modern digital applications. With its research, educational and interactive character as main features, as well as its personalization, openness, dynamism and accessibility to everyone, the Virtual Museum approaches, in various ways and in different fields (through the digital multimedia presentation of a multitude of archival material with a common point of reference), music and the course of Hellenism (inside and outside of Greece) mainly in the 20th century, emphasizing on the period 1900-1960, but also with references that, due to the considerable importance of the 78 rpm, date back to older historical periods.

The digital content of the Virtual Museum, whose enrichment and development is constantly ongoing, includes more than 6,000 holdings, a representative sample from the wide range of the different categories of the archival material in the Kounadis Archive. 78 rpm records, musical scores, interviews (sound and transcripts), photographs, postcards, sound reproduction apparatuses and musical instruments form a historical and conceptual unit with music as the key component; not only as a performance, as a form of recreation, entertainment and culture, but also as a research tool, as a mirror of social developments and as a field of symbolic recording and projection of the controversies that expressed the underlying demands of each era, highlighting the processes that shaped collective consciousness and modern Greek identity.

Utilizing modern multimedia technology and virtual reality, “translating”, that is, the archival material of another historical period into the codes of the digital world that are familiar to modern man, the “Kounadis Archive Virtual Museum” seeks to highlight them, to bring them back to collective memory, to contribute to the opening of a fruitful dialogue with the past, to reflect upon them, to promote awareness and to ruminate.