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name: "Plug and Socket Museum"
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subtitle: "A Dutch museum cataloguing every electrical-plug standard"
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date: 2026-05-20
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link: https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/
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source: "Things Magazine"
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topics:
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- general-delight
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tags: [museum, design, electrical, netherlands]
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description: "A Dutch online museum dedicated entirely to the history of electrical plugs and sockets — every regional standard, photographed, dated, and annotated."
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There are at least 15 incompatible electrical plug standards in active use globally; the Plug and Socket Museum (an online archive run by a Dutch enthusiast) is the definitive catalog. Every regional variant, photographed against a neutral background with the history of why each diverged. The kind of obsessive single-subject archive the internet exists for.
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