Queensland Communications Museum

This is a place where you can “See How We Connected” before the internet.
The Museum is a timely collection of artifacts placed in a near chronological order.
We have in our collection, a large number of working items and the morse code display enables viewers to see their “name in lights”.
Magneto, dial, push button telephones as well as the well-known public telephones and not forgetting “BRICK” mobile phones”.
Party lines, pyramid boards, step-by-step as well as an ARK country telephone exchanges that all work when required.
1194 will also be telling you the time and you can revisit office technologies including on site connection devices and Telex Machines.
Meet our “Gibson Girl” who was used to get help, after airmen ditched into the water, to safety.
Field testing telephones from around the world and tool kits that were purpose built for the task at hand are displayed.
We have samples of copper cables that were used and have glass fibre-optic cables that are used in today’s super-fast digital world.
“COME INSIDE AND BE SURPRISED”