Museo Civico delle Telecomunicazioni (Collezione Cremona)

The "Cremona Collection" hosted in the local city museum, was opened on 30 October 1999. The collection, of significant scientific and cultural value, born after the war with a first collection of remnants of war and is made up of memorabilia and historical equipment for the civil and military telecommunications. Today the collection, divided into 20 thematic sections, consists of 1000 instruments and memorabilia of various nationalities, many of them rare or even unique specimens; documented, step by step, the evolution of the media for the transmission of ideas and information. Aim of the exhibition is to create a historical journey on a telecommunications system, through a wide view showing the evolution of the instruments and apparatus made over time in the telecommunications field. The collection, owned by Gen. Francesco Cremona, has had several opportunities to full or partial exposure in Italy and abroad. Two events, important historical event, have the privilege to drive the patronage of the Presidency of the Republic in 1993 with President Scalfaro and in 2001 with President Ciampi. In addition, the collection was listed in the "Guinness World Records" in the editions from 1998 to 2002 for breadth, rarity and historical significance of memorabilia and pays tribute al'opera Guglielmo Marconi. The collection starts with an educational section that discusses the oldest telecommunication systems, by flashes of fire and acoustic signals with horns and shells of prehistoric people to lookout stations and reports of the greek-Roman period, and then get in Middle Ages, some acoustic instruments have also found use in the broadcast: megaphones, bells, horns, sirens, etc., not to mention the widespread use of racing pigeons. This brings us to the end of '700, with the aid of the telescope where it originated optical telegraphy with different signaling modes. The upper floor is dedicated to the advent of electricity it exhibits many examples of electric telegraphs, marine and terrestrial signaling systems, with flags, telephones of all ages and nationalities, civil and military, as well as telephone exchanges. A wide choice of teletypes, seismographs, geophones and telegeofoni, metal detectors, optical phones, up to specimens of wireless telegraphy and radio telephony. The section dedicated to Guglielmo Marconi exhibits rare original memorabilia including the famous Radio Receiver Marconi Magnus of 1992, as well as some fine reconstructions. Equally wide review of the radios of all ages and nationalities, including recorders and the sounds reproducers. Follows the part dedicated to the cinema, on television, video- and computer. The underground instead hosted a fascinating section dedicated to the media in the services of "intelligence", with extensive review of 007 cases, with two-way radio, while among the encryption devices, this range includes famous appliance "Enigma", used by the German army during the second World war. In the branch of the museum are housed many military radio equipment, stations, radio links and radar, supplied to the Atlantic Alliance and the Warsaw Pact. It 'a museum not to be missed and to visit, because there was a lot of passion to realize it and there is so much passion in keeping it; wireless inventions of Guglielmo Marconi and the birth of the transmission has given rise to a new style of life that we all know today, like cellular telephony, wireless internet and much more, this museum tries to retrace the entire radio life and l ' evolution that we have had over the years trying to preserve the most of all manufactured devices.