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

Pedal generator

Sputnik transmission

Prismatic compass

Photograph, City South tunnel, Liverpool and Pitt street

Telephone instrument

Mobile telephone

Text telephone

Photograph, Floodwater pole repair

Payphone

Photograph, James Melrose with aeroplane My Hildegarde

Automatic exchange telephone

Speaking Clock

Telegram

Double-needle telegraph instrument

Hearing aid

Oral History, John Riddett, Part One

Submarine Cable

The Telephone – How it works

Teleprinter keyboard

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

Oral History, Phyllis Taig