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Mount Laura Homestead Telecommunications Museum |
5608 Whyalla Norrie, Australia (South Australia) |
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part of Mount Laura Homestead Museum
Ekblom Street |
| Floor area | unfortunately not known yet |
Museum typ
Exhibition
Radio and Kommunication in general
- Wire- & tape recording
- Radios (Broadcast receivers)
- Telephone / Telex
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Opening times
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Monday - Friday: 10.00am - 3.00pm, Sunday: 1.00pm - 4.00pm | ||||||||
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Status from 02/2024
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included in Mount Laura Homestead Museum admission | ||||||||
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| Homepage | www.nationaltrust.org.au/places/mount-laura-station | ||||||||
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Our page for Mount Laura Homestead Telecommunications Museum in Whyalla Norrie, Australia, is administrated by Radiomuseum.org member Keith Ellison. Please write to him about your experience with this museum, for corrections of our data or sending photos by using the Contact Form to the Museum Finder.
| Location / Directions |
WhyallaRoadThe Lincoln Highway passes directly through Whyalla. The city is served by a coach bus service operated by Premier Stateliner which operates four services to and from Adelaide (via Port Augusta) each week day (less on weekends) and one service each way to Port Lincoln. Air Whyalla Airport is 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) southwest of the city. It is served by Regional Express flying into Whyalla from Adelaide a number of times a day, and QantasLink which operates twice daily services from Adelaide Whyalla Norrie is a suburb of Whyalla on the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia. The Mount Laura Homestead National Trust Museum is located near the Westlands shopping centre. |
Some example model pages for sets you can see there:
AUS: Ferry Sound Deluxe Radio-Tape Unit M5 (1952-54)
AUS: Ferry Sound Bluebird (1956)
AUS: Ferry Sound Professional Reel to Reel (mono) (1956/57?)
AUS: Ferry Sound Semi Professional Recorder (1956/57?)
AUS: Ferry Sound Semi Professional Recorder 2 (1957)
USA: RCA RCA Victor Co. Velocity Microphone 44-A (1933)
| Description | The Telecommunications Museum houses an extensive collection of items from Electra House transferred when the King William Street facility was dismantled. A joint venture between the National Trust of South Australia, Whyalla Branch and the Whyalla City Council it features exhibits from the Overland and East West Telegraph construction from 1872 and 1877. In 2015 the Museum was extended to house the history of telecommunications on the Eyre Peninsula as well as examples of the evolution of Australia’s communication networks. The Ellison Museum of Radio & Magnetic Recording collection is also here. |
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