The Communication Museum is a great place for leisure activities for children and adults

The life of modern man is difficult to imagine without communication. Thanks to mobile and fixed phones, postal service, the Internet, people report happy and sad news, congratulate relatives and friends on holidays, call an ambulance, employees of other emergency services, sign up for a doctor's appointment, share prescriptions, talk about business at work and Events of personal life. Satellite communication allows you not to get lost in an unfamiliar area, to track hotbeds of natural disasters, to find a lost person, to broadcast television films, programs in good quality, etc.

Like all achievements of mankind, communication has its own history. In primitive society, important information was transmitted with the help of voice and tamtam. Later, various devices appeared, allowing one to hear each other from a distance. All these devices offer visitors a museum of communication.

Location

The Central Communication Museum is located in St. Petersburg, not far from St. Isaac's Cathedral, at the address: Pochtamtsky Lane, 4. The building it occupied before the revolution belonged to the Chief Director of Posts, Prince AA Bezborodko.

You can see the most interesting exposition by going to the metro station "Sennaya" on trolleybuses №№ 5, 22 (stop "Pochtamtskiy lane") or buses № 22, 27 (stop "Konnogvardeisky boulevard").

History of the institution

The Communications Museum in St. Petersburg, formerly the Telegraph Museum, was founded in 1872 by Karl Luders, then Director of the Telegraph Department. The first director of the museum was the writer, editor of postal and telegraph editions of the Russian Empire N.E. Slavinsky.

Later the Communication Museum changed its name, the leadership and the exposition of the cultural object did not remain constant. Since 1945, the institution is named after the inventor of radio communications AS Popov. In 1947 the building of the museum came to an emergency condition, so it was closed.

The doors of one of the most interesting museums were reopened for visitors at the beginning of the XXI century. In 2000, a revival program was developed, according to which the communication facilities of past years were to become available to visitors in two years time. The renovated Communication Museum in St. Petersburg reopened its doors on December 19, 2003.

Exposition features

Under one roof are collected all communication means, invented by people: mail, telephone, telegraph, and even satellite. The exhibits are decorated brightly and realistically that attract the attention not only of adults, but also of children. Little visitors are delighted that some devices can not only touch, but also check how they work: put a stamp on the stamp, send a letter on the pneumatic mail, call the phone in the sample in 1903.

The first hall shows the history of postal communication. Attention viewers are models of animals on which they transported mail (horses, dogs, camels), postal trains and ships. Also here you can see mail boxes of different years, an apparatus for damping stamps.

The next room is occupied by building models. Represented as the Museum of Communications itself, as well as buildings related to it. The history of the main post office and other similar institutions is demonstrated on the screen of the monitor.

Technical devices

One of the halls of the museum resembles a physical laboratory. Visitors do not just look at the artifacts, but also get knowledge from the field of physics: how the color spreads on the TV screen, the human voice is transformed, what are the features of the Morse code, and so on.

In several halls the history of radio receivers and televisions is shown. Here you can see the old apparatuses, modern remotes for sound processing, portable walkie-talkies, learn about how radio communications operated during the war. The inventor of the radio A. Popov, whose name is the museum, is dedicated to a separate exposition.

The switch room is also of interest. Earlier, telephone communication was provided manually thanks to female call-drivers. That is, to call your relative or friend, you had to first talk with a specialist, ask for a connection. Telephone exchanges of previous years were quite large, and modern devices are about the same size as a small cabinet.

In one of the atriums of the museum visitors are introduced to modern telephone technologies, talk about modern satellite communications. Here you can use the Internet.

Philatelist's dream

It is known that the address mail will not accept the letter without the stamp. Postage stamps have existed for a long time. Throughout history, the appearance, the design of postal payment signs changed. The Popov Museum of Communications has a unique collection of these things that are so necessary for the design of letters . Under each brand is indicated, when and in honor of what event it saw the light.

Working hours

The Communication Museum is open to visitors from 10.30 to 18.00. The days off are Sunday, Monday and the last Thursday of the month. Residents of other cities can "walk" through the halls of the institution through virtual tours.