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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor
July 16, 2004
This week, we help plan your vacation with list of radio-related museums you can see between visits to Wally World.
 The Museum of Television and Radio has brick and mortar venues on both coasts, New York City on the right coast, Los Angeles on the left coast. |
Tim Duffy, K3LR, wrote recently, "How about telling us where all of the radio museums and other radio related history sites are across the USA? I need to take a family vacation and it should be radio-educational. Tell me where to go!"
Gladly! This week's installment of Surfin' consists of a list I compiled of radio-related museums located in the USA and Canada that have Web sites you can access for further information. Note that the list only includes brick and mortar museums and not "virtual" bit and byte museums that exist on the Internet-only. (The virtual museums will be the ideal subject for this column when there is a foot or two of snow on the ground making it difficult to drive to a brick and mortar museum.)
The list
is organized by location, ie, country and state/province. If I missed any, let
me know and I'll do an update later.
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USA |
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Alabama |
Fairfield, AL: The Don Kresge Memorial Museum of the Alabama Historical Radio Society. |
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California |
Los Angeles, CA: The Museum of Television and Radio. |
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Indiana |
Ligonier, IN: The Indiana Historical Radio Society. |
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Kansas |
Olathe, KS: The Ensor Farmsite & Museum has an ARRLWeb story. |
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Maryland |
Bowie,
MD: Radio-Television Museum
of the Radio History Society. |
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Minnesota |
St. Louis Park, MN: Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. |
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Nevada |
Virginia City, NV: Western Historic Radio Museum. |
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New Hampshire |
Bedford, NH: US Marconi Museum. |
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New Jersey |
Egg Harbor Township, NJ: K2TQN's OldRadio Museum features "Ham Radio before WW-II" in a museum on wheels. |
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New York |
Bloomfield,
NY: Antique Wireless
Association Electronic Communication Museum. |
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North Carolina |
Asheville, NC: The Southern Appalachian Radio Museum. |
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Ohio |
Cincinnati, OH: Gray History of Wireless Museum. |
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Rhode Island |
East Greenwich, RI: The New England Wireless and Steam Museum. |
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Washington |
Bellingham, WA: American Museum of Radio and Electricity. |
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West Virginia |
Huntington, WV: Museum of Radio and Technology.
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CANADA |
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British Columbia |
Coquitlam, BC, Canada: SPARC (The Society for the Preservation of Antique Radio in Canada) Antique Radio Museum.
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Ontario |
Guelph,
ON, Canada: Hammond Museum of
Radio. |
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Manitoba |
Austin, MB, Canada: Manitoba Amateur Radio Museum claims to be "Canada's Only Amateur Radio Museum."
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Until next week, keep on surfin'
Editor's note: Stan
Horzepa, WA1LOU, has a radio and electronics museum in his garage. His "museum"
collection includes such classics as a GLB PK1, Flesher TU-170, Mac SE,
Microtronics M-80, and Collins 75A-1. To discuss antiques, radios, antique
radios, and other important or neat stuff with Stan, send him e-mail at wa1lou@arrl.net.
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