Welcome to

NCM

The National Communications Museum is opening in November 2021. 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

Submarine Cable

Teleprinter keyboard

Speaking Clock

Photograph, James Melrose with aeroplane My Hildegarde

Double-needle telegraph instrument

Text telephone

Oral History, John Riddett, Part One

Telephone instrument

Automatic exchange telephone

The Telephone – How it works

Payphone

Oral History, Phyllis Taig

Telegram

Sputnik transmission

Mobile telephone

Prismatic compass

Photograph, Floodwater pole repair

Hearing aid

Pedal generator

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

Photograph, City South tunnel, Liverpool and Pitt street