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Radio Museums Update
Our Comprehensive List of Places to Visit
Here is our latest list of radio museums and related places of interest, which you might want to visit, both in the UK and abroad. Please provide feedback on any visits you may undertake and report any broken links from the list below.
Museums and Exhibitions on Radios, Electricity and Signals Intelligence
Georg Wiessala
Alan’s Virtual Radio Museum
British DX Club (Radio Museums & Vintage Radio in the UK & Ireland)
http://bdxc.org.uk/museums.html
General Search Engines:
Online Radio Museums:
http://www.online-radiomuseum.de
NATIONAL MUSEUMS
Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre, West Sussex (RadioUser, December 2015)
Battle of the Atlantic HQ (Liverpool)
https://liverpoolwarmuseum.co.uk
Bletchley Park Museum
https://www.bletchleypark.org.uk
Bognor Regis Museum, West Sussex (The Ron Simpson Wireless Collection)
British Museum
British Vintage Wireless and Television Museum, London (temporarily closed)
Cambridge Museum of Technology
https://www.museumoftechnology.com/explore
Camera Museum in Central London
www.cameramuseum.uk/museum-gallery
Cavendish Museum, University of Cambridge
www.phy.cam.ac.uk/outreach/museum
Chalk Pits Amberley Museum
https://www.amberleymuseum.co.uk
Chicksands Museum
www.gov.uk/government/news/armys-spy-museum-revealed
Communications Museums Trust
www.comms.org.uk/index.phphtml
Design Museum, London
Enigma Museum
Faraday Museum, London (Royal Institution)
(RadioUser, March 2017)
www.rigb.org/visit-us/faraday-museum
HMS Collingwood Heritage Collection CHC
www.rnmuseumradarandcommunications2006.org.uk
Internal Fire, Museum of Power
James Clerk Maxwell Foundation, Edinburgh
www.clerkmaxwellfoundation.org
Marconi Centre, Cornwall
Marconi on the Lizard, Cornwall (National Trust)
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/marconi-on-the-lizard
Midland Air Museum
www.midlandairmuseum.co.uk/about.php
Military Intelligence Museum (Shefford, Beds.)
http://militaryintelligencemuseum.org
Military Wireless Museum (Kidderminster)
Muckleburgh Military Collection / Radio Museum
Museum of Brands, London
Museum of Communication, Burntisland, Fife, Scotland
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Museum of Radar and Communications, Fareham, Hants
www.rnmuseumradarandcommunications2006.org.uk
National Maritime Museum
www.rmg.co.uk/national-maritime-museum
National Radio Centre, Bletchley Park (RSGB)
National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting in West Chester
http://www.voamuseum.org/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
Oliver Lodge Group Collection (Science Museum, London)
https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/ap24552/lodge-oliver-joseph
Orkney Wireless Museum, Scotland
www.orkneywirelessmuseum.org.uk
Radio Communication Museum of Great Britain, Derby (under construction)
RAF Signals Museum, Henlow, Beds.
Royal Institution
Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum (Yeovilton)
Royal Signals Museum, Blandford, Dorset
https://www.royalsignalsmuseum.co.uk
(Practical Wireless, March 2022: 23/4)
Science and Media Museum in Bradford
www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk
Science Museum, London (RadioUser, July 2016)
(See the exhibition: Information Age)
Seaford Museum/Martello Tower
http://www.seafordmuseum.co.uk
Somme Heritage Centre (Newtownards, N. Ireland)
Spy Camera Museum (Australia)
Telegraph Museum, Porthcurno, Cornwall
Transistor Museum
http://semiconductormuseum.com
Watchet Radio Museum
Wireless in Wales Museum (Amgueddfa Gwefr Heb Wifrau)
https://cwmulus.wordpress.com/about
Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum Of Vintage Radio
https://sites.google.com/site/hurdygurdymuseum/home
INTERNATIONAL MUSEUMS
Broadcasting Museum (Bangkok, Thailand)
www.tour-bangkok-legacies.com/broadcasting-museum-bangkok.html
Casa da Luz (Museu de Electricidade/ Electricity Museum) (Madeira, Portugal)
www.visitmadeira.pt/en-gb/what-to-do/culture/pesquisa/electricity-museum
[see the review on pp. 64/5 of this issue of RadioUser – Ed.]
CB Museum (San Roque, Cadiz, Spain)
Cork City Gaol/ Radio Museum
https://corkcitygaol.com/radio-museum
Cryptomuseum (The Netherlands)
https://cryptomuseum.com/index.htm
Deutsches Spionage Museum Berlin (German Spy Museum)
https://www.deutsches-spionagemuseum.de/en
Edison Tech Centre (USA)
Energy History Museum Hanover (Germany)
https://www.energiegeschichte.de/de/ausstellung/sonderausstellungen/auf-empfang.html
https://www.goettinger-tageblatt.de/Mehr/Bilder/Fotostrecken/Radiogeschichte-im-Energiemuseum/1
ENIGMA Post and Telegrafmuseum (Copenhagen Denmark)
Fondazione Guglielmo Marconi (Italy)
Grimeton World Heritage Radio Station
International Radio Museum Hans Necker (Germany)
www.internationales-radiomuseum.de
KGB Espionage Museum (USA)
https://kgbespionagemuseum.org/spy-radios
Kurrajong Radio Museum (Sydney, Australia)
http://vk2bv.org/archive/museum
Modesto Radio Museum (Modesto, CA, USA)
http://www.modestoradiomuseum.org
Museo della Radio, Poppi (Italy)
http://www.museionline.info/musei/museo-della-radio-la-soffitta-di-marconi
Museo della Radio, Verona (Italy)
http://www.museodellaradio.com
Museum für Kommunikation Berlin (Germany)
www.mfk-berlin.de/besuch
Museum of Communication, Bo’ness, Scotland
http://www.mocft.co.uk
Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) (Chicago, USA)
Museum of Radio and Technology (Huntingdon, West Virginia, USA)
www.mrtwv.org
Music Point Radio Museum (Auckland, New Zealand)
http://musickpointradio.org/musick-memorial-radio-station-today/ground-floor/radio-museum
Muzium Telecom Negara (National Telecommunications Museum) (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
National Cryptologic Museum (NSA | USA)
https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic-heritage/museum
Nicola Tesla Museum (Belgrade)
Olens Radiomuseum (Belgium)
Police Scanner Museum (The Netherlands)
www.scannermuseum.nl/index.html
Radio and Phono Museum (France)
Radio- und Telefonmuseum Radio- im Verstärkeramt e.V. (Rheda-Wiedenbrück)
Radiomuseum Duisburg (Germany)
http://www.radiomuseum-duisburg.de
Radiomuseum Gothenburg (Radiomuseet i Göteborg)
http://wordpress.radiomuseet.se
Radio Museum Innsbruck (Austria)
Radiomuseum Köln (Cologne, Germany)
Radio Museum Thessaloniki (Greece)
Ringsted Radiomuseum (Ringsted, Denmark)
Rundfunkmuseum Cham (Germany)
https://www.chamer-rundfunkmuseum.de
https://www.chamer-rundfunkmuseum.de/test (video)
Rundfunkmuseum Fürth (Germany)
Rundfunk- und Fernsehmuseum Bissendorf (Germany)
http://www.radiomuseum-bissendorf.de/
Sandford Mill Museum
https://www.chelmsford.gov.uk/museums
Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine
https://www.scottishmaritimemuseum.org
Museum of Code Practice Oscillators (N4MW)
http://www.n4mw.com/cplist.htm
Telegrafregimentets Historiske Samling (Denmark)
(The Historical Collection of the Danish Signal Regiment)
Tesla Science Centre at Wardenclyffe (USA)
https://teslasciencecenter.org/
Tørning & Mølle Radioutstilling (Old Radio Collection, Vojens, Denmark)
https://toerning-moelle.dk/radioudstilling
Wende Museum of the Cold War (Los Angeles, USA)
© and updated: Georg Wiessala, Monday, 21 November 2022