The Museum of the History of Telephone is a social project aimed at preserving the historical, cultural and scientific heritage in the field of telephone communication, actively popularizing scientific and technical knowledge among young people, expanding the ideas of contemporaries about how the means of communication have changed over the course of two centuries.
General information
In the exhibition halls and storerooms there are more than 2000 copies of rare telephone equipment of the late XIX - mid XX centuries from Europe, the USA, Russia.
Exhibits were acquired both at auctions (specialized auctions, antique online auctions), and from individuals and museums (for example, a private telephone museum in Geneva, Switzerland was purchased in its entirety). Currently, the meeting continues to replenish with new copies, including the efforts of donors.
Among the exhibits of the Museum of the History of Telephone there are telephone sets with the honorary status of “Monuments of Science and Technology”. All activities of the Museum are aimed at realizing its main goal - to store, educate, develop.
Museum History
Today the project “Museum of the History of Telephone” is represented by two museums - in Moscow and St. Petersburg . The first was opened in November 2010 at the Moscow office of the Mastertel telecommunications company. The second - after three and a half years, in May 2013 , in the historical center of the Northern capital (near the Smolny Cathedral and the Tauride Garden ).
Over the 5 years of the existence of the Telephone History Museum, it entered the ranking of the most popular museums among schoolchildren, and it was visited by more than 20,000 people, half of them are pupils of boarding schools and orphanages, veterans, and disabled people
Links
- Museum official site
- “A museum of telephones opens in Moscow” // The Village, 11.2.2010
- "Mastertel" opened the Museum of the History of Telephone // Journal "Technologies and Communications", No. 6, 2010
- “The Museum of the History of Telephone will open in Moscow” // “Moscow”, 02/02/2010