U.S. Marconi Museum

The Guglielmo Marconi Foundation, U.S.A., Inc. & The U.S. National Marconi Museum is located in the historic district of Bedford, New Hampshire, marking the town’s link with Bedford, England, where Marconi spent much of his childhood. The exhibits follow with equipment, literature, audio-visual presentations - the development of radio communications from, "Spark to Space". Displayed is early Marconi wireless equipment together with the progression of radios up to the current cellular telephone exhibit. Included too, will be displays of early medical RF therapy, broadcast, amateur, mobile two-way radio and personal communication system products.

An important aspect of the 14,000 square foot building is its John Frey Technical Library, containing thousands of radio communication periodicals some in a series dating from 1920. All the publications are indexed by subject, author, date and publisher, cataloged on CD-ROM that can be accessed by Internet on the library computer. The shelves also hold hundreds of engineering, text and reference books. The visitor to the museum will enjoy browsing through historical literature.

There is a restoration room for repair of vintage radios, a machine shop and a facility room for educational lectures to school groups, and for meetings of electronic oriented organizations. Plans are underway to house a 100 watt FM broadcast station in the educational section of the FM band, with emphasis in its programming of world scientific news.

Since the Museum is education oriented, The Marconi Legacy Fund has been established to provide scholarships to students in the pursuit of studies related to the art of communications. Hundreds of items have been collected to date for the museum. However, your donation of vintage - and modern - electronic equipment will be most welcome. As the Marconi Foundation is a non-profit corporation, all donations will be acknowledged for personal and tax records.