Karşıyaka Haberleşme Müzesi

About Karşıyaka Haberleşme Müzesi

The Karşıyaka Communication Museum is a municipal museum in Örnekköy that tells the history of communication from the past to the present. Karşıyaka Municipality opened it on 4 February 2014 to inform students and anyone curious about how people have kept in touch over the centuries. The municipality now presents it under the name Communication Collection Exhibition. The collection is made up of many historic devices. Among them are magneto, rotary and push-button telephones, Morse and telegraph equipment, telex machines, a cipher device, telephone exchanges and their parts, headsets, field telephones, radios, submarine radio receivers and shipboard intercom telephones. There are also philately items and phone cards, and an antique pigeon-racing referee clock. Glass cases with wooden shelves line a lit corridor of old dial and push-button phones, while the main hall shows telephones, radio sets and other communication equipment, with stamp collections and old documents in a large glass table. Framed drawings on the walls illustrate communication from the earliest methods to modern times. Visiting: Visit İzmir gives opening hours of 08:30 to 17:30. Call the museum to confirm days before visiting.