The Telegram

When

April 24th - September 30th, 2015

Where

Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki

What happened

The OTE Group Telecommunications Museum, together with the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and the Museum of Byzantine Culture, jointly organised an exhibition titled: The Telegram, part of the “Views of the city” exhibition cycle of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography. The exhibition was organised thanks to the donation to the Telecommunications Museum of a collection of 300 original telegrams by Michael Tsipidis. These telegrams, which are rare and collectible, were added to those already in the Museum’s possession.

Approximately 70 original telegrams were presented at the exhibition, mainly of a commercial nature, from the various Telegraph stations of Thessaloniki (Ottoman Imperial Telegraph Service, Bulgarian, Serbian, English Eastern Telegraph Company and its evolution, Cable and Wireless, the English Cable Telegraph Company, the Greek Postal Telegraph Telephone Service and OTE), from 1870 until 1956, which “converse” with the photographs of Spyrοs Staveris.

Four telegraph objects - telegraph machine, milliameter, telegraph switch and table-top electromagnet - from the permanent collection of the Telecommunications Museum brought the visitor into contact with the original objects of a different era of communication.

Visitors

26,000 people visited the exhibition