In the hall of our museum you can admire : a telephone-tinted ‘art of light’ (light of art is also allowed)… that was installed today. Until November last year it hung in the COMM (Image and Sound) in The Hague, formerly known as the Postal Museum or the Museum of Communication in the Zeestraat. After […]
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Management and Volunteers of the Houweling Telecom Museum wish all members, followers, everyone who’s interested, (former) colleagues, visitors and anyone who wants to visit us next year, Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy 2025. (For those that wonder about the picture: this was taken at Capelle aan den IJssel during the severe Winter of
The Rotterdam tramway network will be changed in 2025; From January 6th you have to take tramline 8 to Schiebroek when traveling from Rotterdam Central Station to the museum (up till now it is line 25), this tram also stops at the Walenburgerweg. For more information use this link:
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In the morning of March 20th we started to replace the old 48 Volt battery power supply in the Houweling Telecommuseum, the old charger from the 50ies worked without much fuss but caused more and more concerns during yearly inspections, now it’s function has been taken over by two smaller power supplies. We started with
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Open Monumenten Dag The yearly Open Monuments Day (AKA Museum weekend) was held at September 9th and 10th, the motto of this year was “living inheritance”. “The reason to join this event was the 100th birthday of the building that hosts our museum, this year’s theme (Living Inheritance) suited our museum as our volunteers keep
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Last Tuesday an old Wagner type “motherclock”was collected in Voorburg and brought to the museum. This once controlled the clocks in the former main office of the Dutch Postal Cheque and Giro Service (PCGD) in The Hague. As this office was built at the same time as the museum, this clock could have a respectable
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On May 5th 1923, the first regular radio-telegraph connection with the (then) Dutch East Indies was put into service, for this purpose a radio station had been built in Kootwijk and a receiving station in Malabar (35 Km south of Bandoeng). In 1916, the scientist C.J. de Groot stated that a long wave radio would
The year 2020 was the year of the commemoration of 75 years of Liberation in the Netherlands. This exhibition not only gives an impression of wartime telephony in the Rotterdam area but also in other parts of the country. On May 10th 1940 the war started and soon the fighting spread to Rotterdam and culminated
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112 (one one two) 3 digits that you only need when something serious is going on. And there it was: Tuesday, January 26th, we desperately needed the Fire Brigade. A fire had started in our film room on the 1st floor. Fortunately, because of the smoke from the windows, bystanders or residents had called
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The building & collection of the Houweling Telecom Museum are owned by our sponsor KPN.
In 2020 we received a nice amount of € 3,000 subsidy from the Prince Bernhard Culture fund. This allowed us to manage and document the collection even better.
