Communications Museum Sydney

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Apr 23rd, 2023

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Mar 25th, 2023

Feb 13th, 2022

just putting 5 stars because sydney needs more museums.
Aug 10th, 2021

I stumbled across a TikTok of all things, featuring video inside some sort of museum of telephony on the Telstra account and thought wow, thats cool so I had to visit! To my amazement, my kids had the most awesome time! We went along to film a segment for The Today Show so I assumed the kids would be bored, but that was far from the case. The Telstra Museum has locations in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. In Sydney its tucked away inside what I can only assume is a former Telstra Exchange facility or office, because its far from a Powerhouse like location however, its perfect for what it is. In the back streets of Bankstown, behind a closed door this room is full of some wonderful treasures from our telecommunications past. Theres mobile phones from the early days, big enough to pass as a suitcase today, and smaller ones with pull out extendable antennas. Have one of the amazing volunteers (who are likely former Telstra employees with a love for this very technology) show you things like morse code, telex machines or even the original Telephone Exchanges. Whats amazing is, much of it is still working! Old Payphones, even Television and Radio network operations control panels you name it, these museums have it. Oh, and theres also George the Speaking Clock. Kept ready for the day our mobiles stop telling us the time, a great slice of history itself.
Apr 4th, 2022