National News Museum of Finland

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The National News Museum of Finland ( Finnish Valtakunnallinen Viestimuseo ) is a museum for communications technology with a focus on military radio technology and military intelligence . It opened in 1974 and is located in the Finnish city of Hämeenlinna , just under 100 km north of Helsinki .

history

The building in which the museum is now located was built in 1913, during the Russian era , and at that time functioned as an officers' club. It has housed the National News Museum since 1974 . It is run on a voluntary basis.

exhibition

Type printing telegraph from David Edward Hughes on a GDR postage stamp from 1990 .

The museum presents around 400 communication devices with a focus on military communication as well as around 100 other exhibits and around 200 historical photographs . The exhibits are arranged chronologically in seven sections, from ancient to modern.

The range of communication technology presented extends from pigeon mail to modern cell phones . Special treasures are a type printing telegraph (picture) by David Edward Hughes from the 19th century, a remote-controlled mine detonator, various signal pistols and a German Enigma cipher machine from the Second World War .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The National Signals Museum (English). Retrieved April 11, 2017.
  2. ↑ departments of the museum (English). Retrieved April 12, 2017.

Coordinates: 61 ° 0 ′ 18.4 ″  N , 24 ° 27 ′ 26.1 ″  E