Early this year our museum will relocate to Seattle WA:
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Please note that we are no longer available for tours.
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American Museum of Telephony – aka: JKL Museum of Telephony
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The photo slider below shows photos of our museum:
The entry hall with an antique oak double wall telephone booth.
Our Telephone Museum’s Name
The JKL name is the creation of our telephone museum’s main benefactor, John K. La Rue, whose initials just happen to appear above the number 5 on most telephone dials.
The rebuilt collection includes telephones and related equipment from all over the world, dating from the late 1870s to the 1980s. Among our many goals is to have working telephones and demonstrations from all eras, and to interconnect working telephones by way of the collections extensive central office type switching system. The collection includes a library of telephony publications, including catalogs, brochures, and telephone company publications. The collection continues to grow through the acquisition of private collections, donations of library materials, and purchases from private and public sources.
We hope you enjoy visiting our museum website with many photographs we have assembled of the old and new collections in a variety of categories. If you have questions or would like to schedule a tour, please send us an email.
JKL Museum of Telephony News and Updates
Today visitors: 37
Today visits: 37
Yesterday total visitors: 63
Yesterday total visits: 78
Total visitors: 12,745 – Since Aug 1, 2024
Total visits: 17,084 – Since Aug 1, 2024