TASHKENT ― The History of Communications Museum, with 400 exhibits showing the development of the telecommunications industry in Uzbekistan, recently opened in Tashkent.
The exhibits include a copy of a Turkish-style post chaise made by craftsmen from the Kokand khanate, which was used for centuries to deliver mail, as well as a model of an ancient fortress from the Timurid dynasty that was guarded using a system of signals.
The collection also includes the mobile telephone used in August 1992 by President Islam Karimov to make the symbolic first mobile telephone call in Uzbekistan. The development of telephones is the subject of a stand exhibiting several phones (some as old as 80 years) that have been restored and linked to the telephone network so that they can be used by visitors to the museum.
The exhibition also contains a model of the lunar lander launched by satellite in August 1974, parts of which were manufactured in Uzbekistan at the Koinot enterprise. The factory continues to manufacture high-tech products today, some of which are on display at the museum.
The history of television occupies a special place in the museum. “I could not have imagined that people used to watch television through a magnifying lens filled with water,” said 16-year-old Ilyas Karabaev after his encounter with the USSR’s first model television set, the KVN-49.
The exhibition also has a large collection of postage stamps issued in Uzbekistan since the country’s independence in 1991, as well as a collection of postcards from the beginning of the nineteenth century. Museum Director Takhir Nazarjanov said both organisations and ordinary people have contributed to the collection by donating items for exhibition. “We will continue to welcome additional donations. The expansion of the museum is an ongoing process, just like the development of the information and communications industry itself,” he noted.
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