Your Bucket List of Communication Museums to Visit (By State)

Assembled by Keith Schreiter N9QDS

Rev 2: September 16th, 2025

Alabama

SIGNALS Museum of Information Explosion

https://signals-museum.org/   (256) 857-1294

1806 University Drive Huntsville, AL 35801

(256) 857-1294 or 1293

Arizona

Pioneer Living Telephone Museum

https://pioneeraz.org/museum-of-telephone-and-telegraph-history/  Phone: 623-465-1052   Fax: 623-465-3901

Address: 3901 W. Pioneer Road Phoenix, AZ 85086   Email: info@pioneeraz.org

Antique Radio Museum of Arizona

https://www.westvalleyhamshack.com/ra   623-414-7514

11115 W. Nevada Ave. Youngtown, AZ. 85363  623-414-7514  Email: westvalleyhamshack@gmail.com

Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation.

https://www.smecc.org/  623-435-1522

Coury House / SMECC  5802 W. Palmaire Ave Glendale AZ 85301

California

The JKL Museum of Telephony is moving to The Connections Museum in Seattle, WA

The California Historical Radio Society (CHRS)

2152 Central Avenue.  Alameda, CA 94501

https://californiahistoricalradio.com/

Roseville Telephone Museum 

https://www.consolidated.com/about-us/history/telephone-museum  916-786-1621

106 Vernon Street Roseville, CA 95678  Email: rosevilletelephonemuseum@consolidated.com

Maritime Radio Historical Society (MRHS)   Historic KPH Maritime Radio Receiving Station

https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/kph_treetunnel.htm

1 Bear Valley Road Point Reyes Station, CA 94956

415-464-5100 x1 Fax 415-663-8132

Maritime Radio Historical Society (KPH)

https://www.radiomarine.org/   Email: info@radiomarine.org

17400 Sir Francis Drake Blvd Point Reyes National Seashore. CA

Postal mail: PO Box 392, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956

Connecticut

ARRL Heritage Museum

225 Main Street Newington, CT, 06111-1400 

https://www.arrl.org/arrl-heritage-museumTel: 1-860-594-0200 | Fax: 1-860-594-0259 Toll-free: 1-888-277-5289

The Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut

https://www.vrcmct.org/   (860) 683-2903  Email: radioclctr@aol.com

115 Pierson Lane Windsor, CT 06095

Colorado

Connections Museum of Denver will open soon (The old JKL Museum)
THG Archvies
303-296-1221 Email: telcomhist@aol.com

Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Museum

https://www.colorado.com/cheyenne-wells/mountain-states-telephone-and-telegraph-museum

(719) 767-5865

60 S. 1st Street, Cheyenne Wells, CO, 80810

Delaware

Johnson Victrola Museum (Nipper)

https://history.delaware.gov/johnson-victrola-museum/   (302) 739-3262  Email: JVmuseum@delaware.gov

375 S New St, Dover, DE 19901

Illinois

Telephone Museum of Gridley IL

https://telephonemuseumofgridley.com/   (309) 747-2284

318 N. Center St, Gridley IL 61744

Kansas

Ensor Park & Museum

Open for 4 months out for the year
https://www.ensorparkandmuseum.org
Email: https://www.ensorparkandmuseum.org/contact/
18995 W. 183rd St. Olathe, Kansas 66062

Maine

The Telephone Museum

https://thetelephonemuseum.org/   207-667-9491 · switchboard@nemot.org
166 Winkumpaugh Road · PO Box 1377 · Ellsworth, ME 04605

Maryland

National Capital Radio & Television Museum 

https://ncrtv.org/  call (301) 390-1020 or email info@ncrtv.org

2608 Mitchellville Rd.Bowie, MD 20716

The National Electronics Museum

https://www.nationalelectronicsmuseum.org/   (443)-345-1390
338 Clubhouse Road, Hunt Valley, Maryland, 21031

The National Cryptologic Museum (Enigma Machines) 301-688-5849 Email: crypto_museum@nsa.gov

https://www.nsa.gov/history/national-cryptologic-museum/about-the-museum

8290 Colony Seven Road Annapolis Junction, MD 20701

Massachusetts

Chatham Marconi Maritime Center 

https://www.chathammarconi.org/  508-945-8889

847 Orleans Road North Chatham, MA 02650

Michigan

Thomas Edison Depot Museum Port Huron

https://www.phmuseum.org/thomas-edison-depot-museum/    810-455-0035

510 Edison Parkway Port Huron, MI 48060

Montrose Historical & Telephone Pioneer Museum

https://montrosemuseum.com/  810-639-6644  Email: staff@montrosemuseum.com

144 East Hickory Street Montrose, MI.  48457

Minnesota

Pavek Museum of Electronic Communication

https://pavekmuseum.org/

3517 Raleigh Ave.St. Louis Park, MN 55416

Missouri

Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum

jbtelmuseum.org/  Email: jbtelmuseum@yahoo.com  (314)-416-8004
12 Hancock Avenue Saint Louis, Missouri  63125

New Hampshire

New Hampshire Telephone Museum

 nhtelephonemuseum.org/ 603.456.2234 One Depot Street – PO Box 444 – Warner NH 03278

New Jersey

Thomas Edison National Historical Park    5 Stars

https://www.nps.gov/edis/index.htm     973-736-0550 ext. 11211 Main Street West Orange, NJ 07052-5612

Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park,

https://www.menloparkmuseum.org  (732) 549-3299

 37 Christie Street, Edison, NJ, 08820,    tecmp1879@gmail.com

Radio Technology Museum   (The New Jersey Antique Radio Club)
https://www.rtm.njarc.org/

Behind The Marconi Hotel
2201 Marconi Road, Wall Township, NJ

New Mexico

Very Large Array (VLA) Radio Telescope facility  (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

https://public.nrao.edu/visit/very-large-array/   Call 575-835-7219 or email us at visitVLA@nrao.edu.

Very Large Array Visitor Center  Old Hwy 60, Magdalena, NM 87825

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

https://www.nuclearmuseum.org/   Phone: 505-245-2137
601 Eubank Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM 87123

New York

Antique Wireless Association AWA New York 1A4469

https://www.antiquewireless.org     need Phone

6925 Route 5, Bloomfield, NY 14469 

Long Island Telephone Museum

https://www.longislandtelephonemuseum.com/  Phone (917) 543-4073  Text Us 1-917-543-4073

LongIslandTelephoneMuseum@gmail.com

445 Commack Rd, Commack, NY 11725

North Carolina

Asheville Radio Museum

https://www.avlradiomuseum.org

Room 306 Elm Building (near 283 Victoria Road) Asheville – Buncombe Tech Comm. College Asheville, North Carolina  28804.

Ohio

VOA Voice of America Museum

https://voamuseum.org/visit/  513-777-0027 Email: https://voamuseum.org/contact-us/

8090 Tylersville Rd. West Chester. Ohio 45069

Early Television Museum

https://www.earlytelevision.org/museum.html   614-771-0510   Email: info@earlytelevision.org

5396 Franklin Street, Hilliard, Ohio

Oregon

Radio Days “theater of the mind” Museum

https://radiodaysmuseum.org

103 W. Central Ave. in Sutherlin, Oregon

Vintage Tektronix Museum

https://vintagetek.org/    Email: contactus@vintagetek.org   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsadaoo4-oA

13489 SW Karl Braun Dr., Beaverton, OR, 97077   503 644-0161

Rhode Island

New England Wireless & Steam Museum

https://newsm.org/  (401) 885-0545 

1300 Frenchtown Road • East Greenwich • RI 02818 

Tennessee

Charles Hall Museum (Telephone)
www.charleshallmuseum.com 865-938-1243/423-253-2111
229 Cherohala Skyway Tellico Plains, TN Email: charleshallmuseum@hotmail.com

Texas

Texas Broadcast Museum

https://texasbroadcastmuseum.com/   Email: info@txmbc.org   (903) 985-8115

416 E Main St Kilgore, TX 75662

Edison Museum

edisonmuseum.org
350 Pine St (behind Edison Plaza)   409-299-9195  Email: director@edisonmuseum.org

Beaumont, TX 77701

Washington

Connection Museum (Seattle) (Telephone)7000 E Marginal Wy S, Seattle, WA 98108

The Connections Museum is taking over the JKL Museum in CA and moving it to Seattle and Denver locations

https://www.telcomhistory.org/ConnectionsSeattle.html

Phone: (206) 767-301Connection Museum  (Telephone)

Spark Museum of Electrical Invention

https://www.sparkmuseum.org/  (360)-738-3886

1312 Bay Street, Bellingham, WA 98225.

West Virginia

Museum of Radio & Technology

https://www.mrtwv.org/visit-us/  (304) 525-8890

1640 Florence Ave Huntington, WV 25701

Ontario Canada

Hammond Museum of Radio 

https://www.hammondmuseumofradio.org/  519-822-2441, ext. 590

Email:  curator@HammondMuseumOfRadio.org

595 Southgate Road Guelph, Ontario N1G-3W6

This Museum is now open call the number for more info.

MZTV Museum (Toronto) – outstanding TV history
 https://mztv.com/ Phone: 416-599-7339 Email: mztv@mztv.com
64 Jefferson Avenue Toronto, Ontario M6K 1Y4

HMS Haida (Hamilton, 30 mins from Toronto between Toronto and Niagara Falls) – WWII  radar & Sonar
 https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/on/haida Phone:  905-526-6742 Email  haida.info@pc.gc.ca
Pier 9-658 Catharine St N. Hamilton ON L8L 8K4

Alexander Graham Bell’s House (Brantford, West of Toronto) – house where he invented telephone – https://www.brantford.ca/en/things-to-do/bell-homestead.aspx Phone:  519-756-6220
94 Tutela Heights Road, Brantford, Ontario N3T 1A1 Email Bell Homestead NHS

Conclusion

Enjoy your visit to as many museums as you can in your travels. Remember to call the museums for times they are open as they are all different and can change, also some are free and others have a small entrance fee to them. Remember no weapons allowed on Government and National Park lands. This is not a complete list and I may have missed some, so if there are updates, revisions Please contact me so I can update this list.

email:  n9qds@arrl.net or call me Keith 847-7O7-6574

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