Museum of the History of Communication

The Museum of the History of Communications in Lithuania was founded in 1994 in the city of Kaunas, in the building of the former postal station of the XIX century. Here, tourists will be able to learn the history of the development of Lithuanian post, the beginning of the development of telegraph-telephone, radio and information technology in Lithuania.

An exciting journey into the history of communications of the state of Lithuania begins with postal letters in Latin, written in the XIV century by Grand Duke Gediminas about the founding of the city of Vilnius, and continues with other bright exhibits of the Museum of Communications: the uniforms of postmen of past years, switching equipment and samples of old telephones. Here you can see the first optical telegraph in Lithuania in 1939, the first computers and computers, learn about how the telephone line appeared in the country and how the postal service developed. Also, the museum often hosts various exhibitions: paintings, coins, handicrafts and engineering equipment.

The museum contains collections of postal documents, stamps and communication technologies of the twentieth century, it has more than 400 exhibits related to mail, radio, telegraph, various documents and photographs. The exhibits were collected in Lithuania and brought from other countries.