Long Island Telephone Museum
LONG ISLAND TELEPHONE MUSEUM
145 YEARS OF TELEPHONE TECHNOLOGY
OPENED on the first Sunday of each month from 1-4 PM
(except holiday weekends)
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445 Commack Road
Commack, N.Y. 11725
1-631-608-1304 ------ Text Us 1-917-543-4073
LongIslandTelephoneMuseum@gmail.com
@LongIslandTelephoneMuseum
Visit the Long Island Telephone Museum and step back in time to when your mobile telephone was in the nearest phone booth, and your home phone was wired to the wall. Learn how Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson invented the telephone. Touch and try all the telephone artifacts through the decades.
In many other museums, things can only be seen. In our museum visitors can handle, listen to and touch authentic interactive exhibits and artifacts.
The Long Island Telephone Museum has numerous mannequins and animatronics to showcase our many displays on operations, service and the history of communications.
The Pioneers were formed in 1911 with the help of Alexander Graham Bell. Today it consists of active and retired employees who volunteer thousands of hours of community service each year.
Answering the Call of Those in Need
Founded by Ralf Krause, the museum is in space provided by the previous New York Telephone Company in 1990 and is now hosted by Verizon. All the exhibits have been created, constructed and are staffed by volunteers of New Vision Pioneers Paumanok Chapter #85
History Is Calling!
Tours of the museum are offered to groups on weekdays throughout the year by appointment only, Call us!
Long Island Telephone Museum Gift Shop Available Onsite
Exhibits
Visit the Long Island Telephone Museum and step back in time to when your mobile phone was the nearest phone booth
Angus Macdonald
"The Sprit of Service"
Learn about Angus Macdonald, a lineman during the blizzard of 1888, he made sure not a single call was lost and helped passengers that were stranded on a train stuck in the snow for 2 days. He was the inspiration for the slogan "The Sprit of Service"
Evolution Of the Pay Telephone
Enjoy seeing how the payphone changed through the years
Telephone Gallery
The gallery is surrounded by the largest collection of telephones in the area
See, feel and touch original period telephones dating as far back as the 1880's
Wooden Magneto Wall Set
Nassau Nelly
Nassau Nelly depicts an operator at a big business in the 1940's!
An original fully stocked and ready to go to work 1967 Ford Econoline New York Telephone Truck
Contact John Stallone : Curator/Historian