Speedgate Vlaggemanstraat Since July of this year we have a ‘Speedgate’ on Vlaggemanstraat. No longer an ‘ordinary’ gate that could be opened and closed with a key, but a completely new gate, which can only be opened with a card. This is because Security wanted to eliminate the risk of the gate left open, especially …
Last Tuesday the museum was visited by the Red Cap “chapter” of Capelle A/D IJssel which is part of the Red Hat Society. The Red Hat Society is an international group of ladies over 50 that twice monthly organises outings: one to chat and one cultural, this month the Houweling Telcom Museum had the honour, …
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 …
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 …
In March 2023, we received a museum visit from the managers of the Memory Museum in Nijverdal. They were looking for a cord post, because they were busy setting up an interbellum (time between the 1st and 2nd World War) exhibition. Of course we could help them. The exhibition was opened on April 25 and …
Our Telecom Museum is housed in the building at Vlaggemanstraat 15 in Rotterdam Noord. This building was built in 1923 as a telephone exchange Rotterdam North. So this year is 100 years old. We would like to pay more attention to that. So if you know anything about the building, please let us know. We …
From a restaurant owner from Dordrecht we received this beautiful Central Battery device.
The year 2020 was the year of the commemoration of 75 years of Liberation in the Netherlands. After some delay due to Corona and the fire in our museum, we can welcome our visitors for this exhibition from 02-11-2021.
We had the opportunity to take a look at the building at 187 Botersloot, Rotterdam Center. The Rt-C11, Rt-C 12/13, Rt-C 14 and Rt-C 33 Central Exchanges were installed here. When these AGF and ARF plants were replaced, these became Rt-C A, Rt-C F/G, Rt-C D and Rt-C E. Unfortunately, this era is also over …
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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 112 …
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In 2020 we received a nice amount of € 3,000 subsidy from the Prince Bernhard culture fund. This allows us to manage and document the collection even better.
