Welcome to

NCM

The National Communications Museum is opening in 2022. In the meantime, we invite you to connect to highlights from our collection online. Encounter sound, film, images and objects from Australia’s communications past, present and future. At NCM we’re all about connection, so as you explore our collection, we invite you to leave your own story to enrich our history.

Meet the Collection

Surprise and nostalgia await you in these highlights from our permanent collection.

Connecting through COVID

Take a curated journey through a unique collection that explores how we connect in times of crisis. 

Meet the Collection

Teleprinter keyboard

Telephone instrument

Prismatic compass

Automatic exchange telephone

Telephone cover

Hearing aid

Photograph, Postman of the 1940s

Photograph, Miss H.C. Felton, Postmistress, Tintaldra

Speaking Clock

The Telephone – How it works

Mobile telephone

Oral History, John Riddett, Part One

Blasting machine

Marconi Kryha cipher machine

Double-needle telegraph instrument

Heliograph

Photograph, City South tunnel, Liverpool and Pitt street

Telegram

Sputnik transmission

Payphone

Pedal generator

Portable radio

Photograph, Floodwater pole repair

Photograph, James Melrose with aeroplane My Hildegarde

Submarine Cable

Text telephone