The A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications is one of the oldest museums of science and technology in the world. It was organized in 1872 as a Telegraph museum. Nowadays museum collections contain well over 8 million items, they consist of authentic documents and objects relating to the history of post, telegraph and telephone, radio and broadcasting, space communication and all modern means of telecommunication.
Since 1924 the Museum is situated in the mention built by an Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi at the last quarter of the 18th century for Prince Aleksander Bezborodko (1747–1799). From 1830 to 1870 numerous reconstructions and modifications of G. Quarenghi interiors took place caused by the needs of the Russian Postal Department which possessed the building. Some fragments of interiors and decorations of Bezborodko times are preserved to the present day.
Now the A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications exposes the history and present day of telecommunications, allows to estimate the speed of progress in technics and to follow up the changes in technical aesthetics during more than one and half century.
Since 1924 the Museum is situated in the mention built by an Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi at the last quarter of the 18th century for Prince Aleksander Bezborodko (1747–1799). From 1830 to 1870 numerous reconstructions and modifications of G. Quarenghi interiors took place caused by the needs of the Russian Postal Department which possessed the building. Some fragments of interiors and decorations of Bezborodko times are preserved to the present day.
Now the A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications exposes the history and present day of telecommunications, allows to estimate the speed of progress in technics and to follow up the changes in technical aesthetics during more than one and half century.
