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The Central Museum of Communications’ collections have been assembling over a one hundred and thirty years. Devices presented on the Moscow Polytechnic Exhibition of 1872 provided the primary base and became first exhibits. In 1884 the new museum’s funds were enriched with the postal material and the Postal Department collection of the marks of postal payment. These valuable entries had formed a basis of the Russian National Collection of Philately which is now kept in the A.S. Popov Museum. As the progress in telecommunication technology went by, the Museum acquired new devices and apparatuses illustrating major developments in telephony, radio and television, broadcasting, satellite and space communication. These days a new collection of the present-day means of communications is being formed.
Nowadays the Museum’s archives and collections contain well over 8 million items, they consist of:
- the Apparatus Collection — about 15, 000 pieces;
- the Documentary Fund — about 50, 000 artefacts;
- the Philatelic, or Marks of Postal Payment, Collection — about 8 million artefacts;
- the Research Library — about 50, 000 books and periodicals.
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