Military Communications and Electronics Museum
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| Established | 1961 |
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| Location | Hwy 2 at Craftsman Blvd, Kingston, Ontario |
| Coordinates | 44°14′31″N 76°26′20″W / 44.242°N 76.439°W |
| Type | military museum |
| Collection size | 5000 items, 10000 square feet |
| Director | Karen Young |
| Curator | Annette Elizabeth Gillis VA3VAI |
| Owner | CFB Kingston |
| Public transit access | 12A, E12 |
| Nearest car park | on-site |
| Website | www |
The Military Communications and Electronics Museum (Musée de l'électronique et des communications militaires) is a military signals museum on Ontario Highway 2 at CFB Kingston in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. A member organisation of the Organization of Military Museums of Canada, the communications museum was established at the base in 1961 and moved to its current purpose-built building in 1996.
Described by Lonely Planet as "a comprehensive and well-designed museum offering chronological displays on communications technology and sundry military gadgets", the museum traces the development of military communications from 1903 onward, through World War I and II, the Korean War and various NATO and United Nations peacekeeping missions to the modern era of communications satellites.
Canadian soldiers are represented by mannequins in military uniform of the appropriate eras manning fixed communications posts, heavily-sandbagged underground dugouts and military vehicles while operating military communications equipment. The history of Canadian electronic military signals dates from 1903, when the militia-based Canadian Signal Corps was established as the first of its kind in the Commonwealth. Exhibits are arranged chronologically from the World War I era to the recent International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan.
Artefacts of the Great War include a cable wagon restored by local signallers, a switchboard from the first deployments of telephone communications in directing artillery, Morse code equipment and gas masks which signallers would have had to keep at the ready in the event of chemical attack.
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