Post Office, Tver, Communications museum on Simeonovskaya Street, Tver, Russia
The Museum of Communications of Tver Oblast occupies the second floor of the Tver branch office of CenterTelecom at Simeonovskaya Street 28, in a pre-revolutionary building of the Tver post office. Its holdings exceed 2,000 items, with equipment and documents tracing electric communications and the postal service in the Tver region from the regular yam relay service to the present.
The museum opened on 26 September 1997, the centenary of Tver's city telephone network, on the initiative of the management of OAO Elektrosvyaz Tver Oblast and funded by that company. In 2007 it added an exhibit on ten postmasters of Tver Governorate and presented the book "Chronicle of Tver Communications". Closed from 2009 during the Tver branch of Rostelecom's move, it reopened on 17 May 2016, World Telecommunication and Information Society Day.
The museum is a departmental collection of the Tver branch of Rostelecom and the federal postal service, created on the initiative of the regional Electrosvyaz company. Its director and exhibition author is Lyudmila Alexandrovna Andreeva, a company veteran. In 2007 the museum prepared an exhibition about ten postmasters of Tver Governorate and presented the book "Chronicle of Tver Communications".
The museum occupies the second floor of the Tver branch office of CenterTelecom at Simeonovskaya Street 28, in the city center, inside the pre-revolutionary Tver post office building. Look for the entrance to the office and head upstairs; the collection of more than 2,000 items is shown in the exhibition rooms there.
The museum's director and exhibition author is Lyudmila Alexandrovna Andreeva, a veteran of the Tver telecommunications enterprise. The collection exceeds 2,000 items, and for the museum's tenth anniversary in 2007 a display on ten postmasters of Tver Governorate was prepared alongside the book "Chronicle of Tver Communications".
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