Vintage Radio Museum

Vintage Radio Museum

(Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut, 115 Pierson Lane, Windsor, CT, www.vrcmct.org) The home of the largest collection of early radios in the country. Founded in 1990 by John Ellsworth, the Radio Museum also includes early telephone communications equipment and personal computers. It has thousands of vacuum tubes and radio and TV schematics for sale. The 20,000 square foot building, the latest of many venues for the collection, is staffed by volunteers who fix radios, give tours and work in any and all capacities to keep the museum functioning.

Some of the Displays

At the top, founder John Ellsworth is sitting at an early radio repair desk next to a collection of early radios, some of which are highlighted below. The Museum's collection of early electronics memorabilia is outstanding.

Imaginative Designs

In the late 1930s and 1940s, radios were becoming ubiquitous and targets for creative themes such as these baseball, hand-painted breadbox and bar radios. (Equipment courtesy of Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut, www.vrcmct.org)