SIGNALS Museum of Information Explosion — Attraction in Huntsville

Signals museum is a great new museum that really embodies the spirit and legacy of Huntsville's passion for technology. The museum is wonderfully hands-on and encourages you to interact with the exhibits - learn how to send a telegram with Morse code (including competing with a friend), trying out a switchboard while following along with the screen, using phones from the 1930s to a 2000s payphone. You can also remember how it feels to use some of the original computer keyboards and look at tape based computing. There's a lot of things here and if you are the talkative type, can spend a few hours here talking with the volunteers and learning.

I do agree with another commenter - children will need good attention spans and lots of care given to keep their hands where they need to be. This is a museum oriented more toward adults or engineering/science...

A gem of a museum! Thousands of unique items, mostly original radios and telecommunication equipment, lovingly displayed, spotless, and carefully labeled (including original retail prices "$65 in 1923").

There are a few interactive exhibits at the start. The main areas, some with pieces over 100 years old, require you (and/or your kids) to have sufficient self control to keep your hands to yourself.

The museum guides are knowledgeable and passionate and even if you know about radio and television, you will learn something new. There is also a small library area with books that go back 100 years about radio and electronics.

Absolutely fantastic, you can't take it all in on one visit. Well...

Today I was fortunate to be part of a group from Honoring Veterans Legacies to get a tour of this fascinating new museum we have here in Huntsville. It is a historic interpretative tour of mankind’s progressive journey in communications. It was so impressive with all they have collected and the presentation of it all makes it a really enjoyable way to learn. Questions are encouraged as well as interactive exhibits. It stirred memories of radios and televisions from my childhood. From the pony express to cell phones it covers it all with a beautiful and thoughtful display. This place is a great place to spend some quality time. You...