Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum Of Vintage Radio
About Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum Of Vintage Radio
Learn more about communications history and discover exhibition including recorders, transceivers, record music players, gramophones, crystal sets.
The Ye Olde Hurdy-Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio in Howth boasts many examples of early Morse equipment, gramophones, crystal sets, valve radios and other pieces of equipment. Additionally, you'll find music boxes, posters, photographs, telegrams, batteries, needle boxes, early TVs, stamps, household items and more. It’s a gadget lover’s paradise.
Pat Herbert began collecting radios and all things connected with communications in the 1950s and amassed this vast private collection. Pat had an encyclopaedic knowledge on the history of radio and was also a great storyteller. He generously allowed the setting up of the amateur station EI0MAR in the Martello Tower
Fittingly, the Martello Tower has historic links with Marconi and Lee DeForest, two of the fathers of wireless, who conducted early experiments from the tower in 1903 and 1905. It was also the site where the first communications cable from Holyhead in Wales to Ireland was laid in 1852. The Howth Martello is one of a network of towers built as lookouts for an expected Napoleonic invasion in 1805.
Learn more about communications history and discover exhibition including recorders, transceivers, record music players, gramophones, crystal sets, valve radios and Morse equipment, stamps, telephones and telegrams collection and other pieces of old equiplent. It brings everyone back to these times, where the very first our hand-held technical devices where invented.
An attraction in Dublin for people, who have an interest in early radio, history behind it and vintage technological stuff.
Opening hours
From May 1st to the 31st October every year the Museum is open 11am-4pm daily.
From the 1st November to the 30th of April the Museum is open ONLY on Saturday and Sunday 11am to 4pm.
Price
Adults €5
Student €3
Children go free
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