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

Heliograph

Photograph, Floodwater pole repair

Prismatic compass

Submarine Cable

Photograph, Postman of the 1940s

Automatic exchange telephone

The Telephone – How it works

Payphone

Double-needle telegraph instrument

Photograph, City South tunnel, Liverpool and Pitt street

Text telephone

Telegram

Photograph, James Melrose with aeroplane My Hildegarde

Telephone cover

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

Speaking Clock

Portable radio

Telephone instrument

Mobile telephone

Blasting machine

Marconi Kryha cipher machine

Hearing aid

Pedal generator

Sputnik transmission

Oral History, John Riddett, Part One

Teleprinter keyboard