The Telephone Museum

THE NEW ENGLAND MUSEUM OF TELEPHONY. INC. is a 501.c.3 non-profit organization doing business as The Telephone Museum in Ellsworth, Maine.

OUR MISSION is to demonstrate the social and technical significance of the telephone network as it existed from 1876 to the present, using working equipment to provide tangible, operable evidence of an evolving technology.

We celebrate the inventiveness, craftsmanship, ingenuity and industry of the telecommunications community through educational programs, exhibits and special events.

The Telephone Museum preserves and operates pre-digital telephone equipment, thus giving life to history and logic to complex modern communications systems. By presenting this equipment in a hands-on museum setting, students may learn, historians may conduct research and inventors may be inspired by the evolution of telephone technology.