Museum Virtual Tour

AWA Communication Technologies Museum Virtual Tour

The AWA Museum’s exhibits building is picture above. Normal visitations days are Tuesdays and Saturdays, and touring information can be found here. Below are several options for making virtual visits to the facility.

Each of the number’s title in the list below (with an *) is a page link whose page contains the details and photos for each numbered exhibit area. In addition to the exhibit’s details are a set of photos that show the exhibits contents. You can click on a photo, and you can then view the photo set as a slide show.

Above is a diagram of the AWA Museum exhibit areas. The areas displayed in bold (with an *) are active links to each display area above.

Exhibit List

• 1 – Western Union Telegraph Office (WU started in Rochester)*                         
• 2 – Mobile Telephone from 1947 and first cellular phone from 1977*              
• 3 – Childrens Discovery Center – genuine Tesla coil*                                                
• 4 – Telegraph Display showing Samuel Morse’s workbook*
• 5 – Wireless Pioneers and Inventors Wall of Fame*                                                  
• 6 – Art Deco Scott AM Receivers*                                                                                    
• 7 – The Beginning: 1850 to 1900 – Hertz, Marconi, Edison                                    
• 8 – Atwater Kent Evolution from Automotive to Radios*                                        
• 9 – Radios: 1900 to 1910 – Marconi, de Forest, Fleming                                         
• 10 – World War II Japanese Radios/Artifacts from battleship “Nagato”               
• 11 – Radios: 1910 to 1920 – Armstrong, Sarnoff, Hazeltine                                 
• 12 – Military Radios used in WWI and WWII*                                                                
• 13 – Interesting Radio Firsts from the beginning of the 1900s *                             
• 14 – Titanic Wireless Room and Marconi Gallery*                                                        
• 15 – Early Amateur “Ham” Radios
• 16 – Display Case full of Rare Radio Tubes                                                                       
• 17 – Early Television Cameras  & Receivers*                                                                   
• 18 – Gramophones & Phonographs*                                                                                
• 19 – Philco & RCA Radios, GE TV with “wired” remote                                               
• 20 – Television Cameras 1949 to 1990*     
• 21 – Complete Telegraph Office from Western Union Corporate Museum*      
• 22 – Teletypewriters Early Digital Communications – Emile Baudot*                    
• 23 – Voice of America Station and Transmitter*                                                            
• 24 – Tube Display*                                                                                                                    
• 25 – Multi-Purpose Function Room                                                                                   
• 26 – Zenith Radio Collection                                                                                                 
• 27 – Wall Art Signs and Advertisements 1910 to present                                          
• 28 – Radio Club of America Display*
• 29 – Meiss Collection of Telegraph Keys                                                                                                      
• 30 – Tom Peterson Exhibit, Swiss “Enigma” and US Cypher Machine                                                       
• 31 –  Bodmer Collection of European Radios       
• 32 – Receivers, Transmitters, Amateur & Home, Test Eqpt                                        
• 33 – Gernsback Radio Store circa 1925
• 34 – The Birth of Transistors & The First Transistor Radios                                        
• 35 – Radio Eqpt Made in Rochester                                                                                   
• 36 – Microphones & Consumer Console Radios from the 1940s                            
• 37 – AWA Museum Store                                                                                                    
• 38 – Roach Hall, containing the Gable K2MP Amateur Station*
• 39 – Collection Registrar

38 and 39, the Ronald Roach W2FUI Hall, has been added to the AWA Museum main building.