Musée de Radio France
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The Musée de Radio France is a museum operated by Radio France and located in the Maison de Radio-France, near the Pont de Grenelle in the XVIe arondissement at 116, avenue du Président Kennedy, Paris, France. It is open daily except Sundays and holidays; admission is free.
The museum was established in 1966, and contains a remarkable collection of radios and televisions from their origins to the present day, including the 1793 telegraph by Claude Chappe and early crystal radios. The museum's 2000 objects include prototypes and commercial devices, archival documents, photographs, and manuscripts, replicas of early radio laboratories and studios, and exhibits featuring research by Edouard Branly, Lee de Forest, Heinrich Hertz, Guglielmo Marconi, James Clerk Maxwell, and Alexander Stepanovich Popov.
