Exhibition "Journey into the World of Communications"

About exhibition

The museum began with exhibits presented by the Telegraph and Postal Departments at the Polytechnic Exhibition, which took place from May to September 1872 on the grounds of the Kremlin. The exhibition was organized by the Imperial Society of Naturalists, Anthropologists and Ethnographers at Moscow University. The telegraph and postal displays were housed in a common pavilion and were very successful with the public. After the exhibition closed, at the initiative of the director of the Telegraph Department, K. K. Luders, a Telegraph Museum was established in Saint Petersburg at the end of 1872; it opened on September 11, 1877. The core of the museum consisted of telegraph instruments returned from Moscow. Today the Central Museum of Communications comprises 13 exhibition halls covering the history of mail, telegraphy, telephony, radio, television, mobile and satellite communications. Here you can not only see rare devices and learn how they work, but also become acquainted with the physical phenomena used in telecommunications. The exhibition also includes valuable philatelic materials from the State Collection of Russian postage stamps.