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Admission Free

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Free Parking

Accessible

Public Restroom

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Saturday

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Museum interior view

Logo - Photo 2

Items explaining how radio was discovered and developed - Photo 3

Vacuum tubes made radio receivers and transmitters feasible - Photo 4

Early 1900s Morse code recording machine - Photo 5

Spark gap transmitter used for sending Morse code - Photo 6

1920s tuned radio frequency (TRF) radio - 3 tuning dials - Photo 7

Early homemade amateur ("ham") radio - Photo 8

Asheville Radio Museum

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WOW! I sought this place out because my husband enjoys ham radio and morse code. Turns out it's a fascinating window into social history, technology, class, woodworking, aesthetics, and nostalgia of...

Don't miss it!

Northampton, Massachusetts

This tiny but well-organized museum on the campus of A B Technical College is a rare gem for radio enthusiasts or anyone with an appreciation of 20th century history. The museum has a plethora of...

A hands-on gem in the mountains of Asheville

We visited on a Saturday afternoon. A small space loaded with old time radios, early radio technology and amateur equipment. They had a wide variety of equipment, including Hammarlund, Attwater-Kent...

Hammarlund time

Chicago, Illinois

What a fabulous little museum filled-to-the-brim with interesting technology, books, and... tour guides!  Stuart (the docent "on duty" when I visited) was lovely and extraordinarily knowledgeable...

What a gem

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Please visit our website for hours. Radio waves are like magic! They travel at 186,000 miles per second. They make possible our cell phones, GPS, wireless internet routers, Bluetooth speakers, radar and much more! Learn how radio waves were discovered and developed and their huge impact on Western North Carolina in the 1920's. See the beauty of early radios... see amateur radio equipment and try your hand at Morse Code... view the WWII radio that helped rescue downed pilots, and the German Nazi radio that could get one killed by listening to a foreign station! Listen to early music on an early 1900s Edison phonograph... take a virtual tour on your smart phone from where ever you are! STEM students welcome. Free admission to all. Special tours available for tourists in town during non regular open hours. Download a FREE virtual smart phone tour from our web site www.avlradiomuseum.org and use it where ever you are!

Asheville Radio Museum

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