Tijdelijke tentoonstelling
150 Jahre Telefon – Grafiken von Peter Beckmann
Special show marking the 150th birthday of the telephone, with 24 graphic works that each tell the device's history in a different way; announced for June to October 2026.
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Telefonmuseum Bochum
Volunteer-run museum on the history of telecommunications in Bochum, with working switching equipment you can try out yourself.
OpeningstijdenGratis toegang
Actuele tentoonstellingen
Over het museum
It all started in 1991, when the Bochum-Werne telephone exchange was shut down. Instead of scrapping the electromechanical equipment, Telekom employees collected the retired devices and gradually gathered more technology worth preserving. In the mid-1990s, telecommunications engineers founded a friends' association that restored the collection and opened it to the public as a museum from 1996.
The Telefonmuseum is located on the Deutsche Telekom site on Karl-Lange-Straße, near Bochum's telecommunications tower and the stadium. It is run by the nonprofit Förderverein Telekom-Historik Bochum e. V.; the exhibits belong to the association, while the equipment of the analog museum exchange belongs to Telekom. The museum is looked after by volunteers, most of them retired telecommunications specialists.
The guiding idea is to demonstrate as much as possible in working order. The centerpiece is a functioning telephone exchange with selectors built between 1922 and 1958, through which visitors can set up calls themselves on historic telephones and watch the selectors at work. The collection ranges from Morse telegraphs and teleprinters to overhead line and cable construction, private branch exchanges, telephones and mobile communications. Newly restored pieces are added all the time, such as speaking clock machines or a working model of the Gauss-Weber telegraph.
Hoogtepunten
- Working telephone exchange with selectors from 1922 to 1958
- Set up your own phone calls on historic telephones
- Morse telegraphs and fully operational teleprinters
- Speaking clock machines and an “Akustisches Museum” (acoustic museum) by phone
- Cable splicer's tent and telecom line-construction equipment
- Free admission
Vaste collectie
- Museumsvermittlungsstelle – Working analog telephone exchange with electromechanical selectors, where you can follow the path of a phone call live.
- Sammlung zur Telekommunikation – From Morse telegraphs and teleprinters to overhead lines, cable construction and private branch exchanges, all the way to telephones and mobile communications.
- Opgericht
- 1996
- Beheerder
- Förderverein Telekom-Historik Bochum e. V.
Toegangsprijzen & kortingen
De toegang is gratis.
| Kinderen & jongeren | –Free admission for everyone. |
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Free admission.
Toegankelijkheid
Het museum heeft hierover geen informatie gepubliceerd – vraag het rechtstreeks na bij het museum.
Kinderen & gezin
Erg geschikt voor kinderen & gezinnen
- Gezinsrondleidingen & workshops
- Doe- en voelstations
As part of Bochum's Ferienpass (holiday pass) program, the association offers a free hands-on tour for children aged 12 and up, where they set up phone calls and send messages by teleprinter.
Bereikbaarheid & parkeren
Met het openbaar vervoer
Stadion
From Bochum Hbf, take U-Bahn line 308 or 318 to the Stadion stop, then walk along Karl-Lange-Straße toward the telecommunications tower to the Deutsche Telekom site.
Met de auto
Parkeerplaats aanwezig
Deutsche Telekom visitor parking lot on Karl-Lange-Straße; from there, walk across the Telekom site to the museum.
By car: A40, exit Bochum-Stadion, Castroper Straße toward Gerthe, then turn right onto Karl-Lange-Straße.
Route plannenService & horeca
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Evenementen & zaalverhuur
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Je bezoek plannen
| Rondleidingen | ja |
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| Goed om te weten | Volunteers demonstrate and explain the equipment; groups by appointment (book by email). Call 0234 33881838 to hear the 1958 speaking clock, or 0234 33881839 for a menu of other historic announcements. |
