[EViL] Industries Telecoms Museum
About

[EViL] Industries Telecoms Museum

We preserve the hardware, paper, and odd little artifacts that built Australia’s communications networks, especially the 1970s–1990s Telecom Australia and early Telstra eras.

Who we are

The museum is built by people who actually care about this gear, not a committee assembled by beige paperwork. It grows through collecting, restoring, documenting, and dragging forgotten telecom history back into the light.

Dutchie

Dutchie is one of the hands behind the collection, with a focus on preserving hardware, keeping the catalogue moving, and making sure the museum remains something people can actually engage with rather than a sealed box of dusty trophies.

Boris

Boris is one of the forces helping shape the collection and its direction, from acquisitions and restoration planning through to the broader vision of making the museum useful to collectors, researchers, enthusiasts, and the merely curious.

What we collect

Handsets and terminals, switching and transmission gear, field equipment and test gear, cabling and plant artifacts, signage and advertising, documents and internal manuals, awards, ephemera, and the occasional replica or third-party oddity that tells a real story.

Why it matters

Networks are culture. The objects people touched to reach each other are history you can hold. Our goal is to keep the collection usable for research, restoration, exhibition, and the occasional film or television production that needs real hardware with a pulse, not a plastic impersonation.

Access

We’re open by appointment for collectors, researchers, donors, and benefactors. The online catalogue exists so the collection stays visible even when the doors are shut.

Help the museum grow

Donations are welcome: items, documentation, spare parts, or clean provenance details. If you have something you think belongs here, visit Support us and we’ll take it from there.