Baynard House, Queen Victoria Street, London EC4

The BT Museum was a

telecommunications Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that fe ...

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...

run by BT, that held artefacts and exhibits on the history of telecommunications in the United Kingdom. It was based in Baynard House in the Blackfriars district of London. It was originally opened as the Telecom Technology Showcase in 1982. It was closed to visitors in 1997, and was replaced in 2001 by the

Connected Earth Connected Earth is a UK network of organizations, primarily museums, that preserve the history of telecommunications in the UK. Heritage artifacts are physically dispersed to Connected Earth partners and other institutions as appropriate, and ar ...

initiative.

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