Radio and Television Museum

Address: 2608 Mitchelville Road, Bowie, Md.

Phone:301-390-1020

Open: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

Of Note: The Radio and Television Museum explores broadcast history from Marconi's earliest wireless telegraph, through early crystal sets of the 1920s, Depression-era cathedral radios, postwar portables and the development of television.

The Vintage Radio and Communications Museum

Address: 115 Pierson Lane, Windsor, Conn.

Phone: 860-683-2903

Open: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday

Of Note: Many of our displays are hands-on! Tap out your name in Morse Code; Tune a 1925 radio; Crank a wind-up phonograph; Listen to a home-made crystal set; Pick a song from a working juke box.

The Paley Center for Media

Address: 25 W. 52nd St., New York, N.Y.

Phone: 212-621-6600

Open: 12 to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday

Of Note: The Center has an international collection of nearly 150,000 programs covering more than seventy-five years of television and radio history including news, public affairs programs and documentaries, performing arts programs, children's programming, sports, comedy and variety shows, and commercial advertising.

Museum of the Moving Image

Address: 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria, N.Y.

Phone: 718-777-6800

Open: 2 to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 12 to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

Of Note: With exhibitions and screenings on the art, history, technique, and science of the moving image, MoMI presents the real and imagined worlds of our past, present, and future.

Museum of Radio & Technology

Address: 1640 Florence Ave., Huntington, W.Va.

Phone: 304-525-8890

Open: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday

Of Note: Interested in Antique Radios? The collection includes: Cathedral radios, console radios, table-top radios, transistor radios, old radios, antique radios, collectable radios, ham equipment, vintage amateur receivers and transmitters, broadcast collectables, military communications equipment, test equipment, vintage computers, vintage hi-fi, and an awesome vinyl record collection.

Early Television Museum

Address: 5396 Franklin St., Hilliard, Ohio

Phone: 614-771-0510

Open: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 12 to 5 p.m. Sunday

Of Note: Our mission is to preserve and make available to the public the history of early television, from the mechanical systems of the 1920s through the introduction of color television in the 1950s.

Texas Museum of Broadcasting

Address: 416 E. Main St. Kilgore, Texas

Phone: 903-985-8115

Open: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday

Of Note: The museum offers an eclectic mix of vintage broadcast memorabilia and equipment, which is sure to delight the young and old alike. Imagine yourself as a news broadcaster or weather person on our fully functional TV News Studio. Listen to one of Thomas Edison’s recording inventions or discover the televisions and radios from days gone by.

Pavek Museum

Address: 3517 Raleigh Ave., St. Louis Park, Minn.

Phone: 952-926-8198

Open: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday

Of Note: Donated by the Pavek Museum’s namesake, the Joe Pavek collection contains artifacts representing the history and evolution of early radio technology. Consisting primarily of radios from the early 1900s through 1940s, it also includes artifacts that are precursors to radio technology, like telegraphs and telephones.