CBC Museum, Broadcasting heritage museum in downtown Toronto, Canada
The CBC Museum is a broadcasting museum in downtown Toronto, housed within the Canadian Broadcasting Centre. It brings together original recordings, photographs, and production objects that trace the story of Canadian radio and television across many decades.
The collection began in the CBC promotion department during the 1960s and grew steadily over the following decades. It became a standalone museum in 1994 when it was established within the Canadian Broadcasting Centre.
The collection preserves props and costumes tied to CBC personalities: outfits worn by Juliette, Tommy Hunter, Bob Homme and the Cross-Canada Hit Parade, plus the castle wall and window from The Friendly Giant. Puppets Rusty and Jerome were loaned by Bob Homme's family until they were withdrawn in 2007.
The museum sits inside the Canadian Broadcasting Centre near the waterfront and is reachable by public transit without much difficulty. It is wheelchair accessible, and visitors can move through the space at their own pace without booking in advance.
The museum's collection began by at least 1960, assembled by staff in the CBC promotion department, and one early highlight was a 1,000-pound Blattnerphone steel tape audio recorder that staff believed was the only complete model in North America. About 100,000 people in Aylmer, Ontario, saw some of the artifacts exhibited in October 1960.
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