The Telephone Museum, Inc.

Waltham, Massachusetts

Verified PWI Partner

Our Mission

The Telephone Museum, Inc. is a 501(c) (3) Non-Profit Public Charity Teaching Museum. Our charter is to inspire children and young adults to become engineers, and our motto is "Keep Calm And Take Stuff Apart". At the museum, visitors are encouraged to sit at the museum workbench and take apart telephones while immersed in a timeline of 1000s of telephone artifacts spanning time, some of which are Alexander Graham Bell’s first telephones and dating as far back as 1876.

Who We Are

Inspiring Enthusiasm for Engineering The Telephone Museum fosters enthusiasm for engineering by leveraging America’s remarkable telephone history with educational programs that compare modern day telecommunications to vintage technology. The museum’s telephone collection is the focal point of this effort, and in conjunction with a maker space, serves to cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit which gave birth to the telephone and continues to drive today’s inventors and innovators.