The Telephone Historical Centre in Edmonton, Alberta provides visitors with an unforgettable experience. Discover an assortment of crank wall phones, decorator phones and switchboards at this remarkable museum.
The Museum is an interactive and engaging learning experience perfect for family outings, school field trips or group tours. Spanning over 4,500 square feet, its exhibits cover more than 100 years of communications technology history.
Roseville Telephone Museum
Roseville Telephone Museum boasts one of the world’s most extensive collections of antique phones and memorabilia, chronicling more than 100 years of communications technology both locally and nationally. Open every first Saturday of the month and free to visit, the museum welcomes visitors year-round.
In 1989, employees at Roseville Home Telephone Company initiated the museum by gathering and curating pieces of phone equipment from its past for display as reminders. Over time, their collection has expanded into thousands of items including rotary phones, candlestick phones, wooden wall-mount telephones and novelty princess phones.
This museum can be found at 106 Vernon Street in Downtown Roseville and provides an enjoyable family outing or school field trip experience. Additionally, visitors will gain a look into Roseville’s past while finding rare memorabilia not seen anywhere else and even experiencing first hand how Roseville Telephone Company utilized magneto switchboards during 1914!
A&H’s Telephone Museum
The museum provides visitors with an introduction to communications technology and its history, such as telephone use. Visitors can experience first-hand a working switchboard as they discover more about Winter Park Telephone Company founded by Maitland native Carl Galloway.
The collection features an original box telephone used by Alexander Graham Bell during his 1876 demonstration of what he called the “phone,” now housed at the Smithsonian Institution and one of over 137 million objects, works of art, specimens that help experts study telephony’s origin and development.
The A&H is an engaging cultural destination and community gathering place, featuring five museums: Maitland Art Center, Waterhouse Residence Museum, Carpentry Shop Museum, Maitland Historical Museum and Telephone Museum. Each exhibit provides its own special experience while giving insight into Central Florida history and heritage. Known for art and history lovers in Maitland alike. The A&H truly stands as an untapped gem within Maitland itself!
Oklahoma Museum of Telephone History
The museum boasts an expansive collection of telephone items dating back over 100 years, from old-fashioned switchboards used when callers first spoke with an operator before dialing, to wooden wall-mount phones and phone booths, novelty phones shaped like Mickey Mouse and Snoopy, novelty phones like those featured on this exhibition, novelty phones featuring Mickey and Snoopy; it provides visitors with a great opportunity to witness how rapidly technology has progressed! This museum allows guests to witness just how far it has come in just decades!
Bob McCoy, a retired Southwestern Bell Telephone engineer, started the museum as a hobby and has amassed thousands of items demonstrating the development of telephone technology over time. Admission is free of charge at 111 Dean A McGee Avenue and open to the public.
Jefferson Telecom
The museum showcases Edmonton’s rich telecommunication history through a display of antique telephones and related technologies, along with interactive exhibits and recently introduced QR codes so visitors can learn more about artifacts using their smart phones.
Established by retired employees from ED TEL in 1987, the Telephone Historical Centre first located in Old Strathcona before moving to Prince of Wales Armouries Heritage Centre in central Edmonton. Housing an impressive collection of antique telephones dating back to 1878 as well as offering smartphones and accessories, this museum also hosts large exhibits and showcases.
Jefferson Telecom provides high-speed Internet, TV service, local and long distance phone service as an Authorized Agent of US Cellular. Their website provides various telecom-related information as well as a cataloged reference library useful to researchers. Jefferson Telecom is owned and managed by the fifth generation of the Daubendiek family with great pride for the communities it serves.
