Exhibition of the Museum of Communications and Technology

About exhibition

The museum is located in the Main Post Office building, built in 1916 to a design by Andrey Dmitrievich Kryachkov. The exhibition acquaints visitors with the history of the emergence and development in Siberia of several types of communications: postal, telegraph and telephone; it also presents technical devices that helped people measure weight, tell the time, calculate, write, light their homes, and transmit sounds and images. The museum's collection comprises more than 5,000 exhibits from the early 20th century to the present. In the interactive areas, guests can make a call using a rotary phone, play Tetris, use a typewriter, or compose a message using Morse code. Young visitors can learn more about means of communication and technology through a multimedia quiz about the people who invented the telegraph, the postal service, the mobile phone and the internet, as well as television and cinematic equipment. By solving puzzles and assembling jigsaws, visitors can "build" an early 20th-century camera, the first Soviet laptop "Elektronika", or a valve radio. The museum will be of interest to a broad audience - schoolchildren, family visitors, and people fascinated by the history of science and technology.