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Table of Contents
About the Museum
A note from
Johnathan Winter, President of the Museum
Stay tuned! We will be adding more to this site quite a bit in the next few months!
Last updated
8/28/98
If you find any broken links, please let us know!
We would love to read your comments or suggestions.
 he Bellingham Antique Radio Museum is a private collection
gathered over the past 25 years by Jonathan
Winter. Jonathan has had a life-long love affair with Radio
and remembers exploring the workings of discarded radio sets when he was 5 or 6 years
old. The collection is a historical journey through time; from the beginning of radio
to the early 1940's. There are over one thousand radios to view, and in some cases
to play. |
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The Bellingham Antique Radio Museum is located in downtown Bellingham,
Washington, USA at 1315 Railroad Ave. and is open to the public Wednesday thru Saturday
from 11:AM to 4:PM. Visitors are welcome and there is no charge, though donations
and comments are gratefully accepted. The pieces in the museum are not for sale. Occasionally
items are traded with other museums or collectors in order to broaden or otherwise
increase the scope of the collection. The museum exists so new generations may see
and explore a world of technology which is no longer here, and to give perspective
to our present technology. Schools are especially welcome to make field trips, and
help is always available to students working on projects which may require the museum's
resources. If you have any items which you feel might be of interest to the Museum,
please give us a call at 360-671-4663, or just come by Wednesday thru Saturday from
12:00 to 4:00. |
| The museum makes use of the World Wide Web and Internet to combine
the old and the new in ways which allow students, collectors, or anyone interested
in the history of Radio, to visit and explore the Museum. The goal is to provide
information on the history of radio, and photos with discriptions of many early radios.
Many of the pictures will be of the more unusual radios of the past. We will also
have sound bites of early significant radio broadcasts, and the occasional short
film clip if useful. The project will have to be a work-in-progress, as the volume
of information to be included will continue to grow over time. We welcome submissions
from the net, and will provide space for these submissions. The name of the game
is information... and more information about radio and the history of broadcasting. |
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The new year of 1999 sees the Bellingham Antique Radio Museum moving into its 11th
year of operation. From a small room on the second floor of the Marketplace Building
in Fairhaven in 1990, to our present location on Railroad Ave. in downtown Bellingham
in 1996, this year the Museum hopes to find a permanent home and is asking interested
parties to help make the Museum a major local resource for the community. Over the
past years I have supported the Museum with little in the way of financial help from
other sources, and though I intend to continue my support, I am now asking for your
help. The Museum recently applied for Non-Profit Status, and shortly, any donations
to the Museum will be deductable.
Think about it for a moment. Most of what is on display at the museum is less than
90 years old.... one good long lifetime.... and yet most of the items on display
at the Museum are gone from our lives. Our children have little in the way of example
to stimulate an interest in science, math and physics and our schools have little
in the way of reference material about radio and rarely have examples for students
to examine. Even our University has little in the way of early radio history. It
is the goal of this Museum to provide this resource for Students, collectors and
the general public.
Please consider supporting this unique Museum.
Jonathan Winter
President |
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The Museum wishes to thank
Chris Coffin Design
for designing and building this site.
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The Network Provider for this site is The
Verio Group in Bellingham Washington. Without their support this site would
not exist. We thank The Verio Group.
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