Category: Updates

Here are a few few photos of March 30, 2026. As you can see the building is now empty and the entire collection has been moved to Seattle WA.
In Seattle the collection is part of the Connections Museum.

Watch this video to learn more about the new facility in Seattle:

It will be a while before the new display gallery with the JKL Museum collection will open for visitors.
Connection Museum Seattle staff is working hard to get everything ready.
In the mean time you can take the virtual tour of the JKL Museum of Telephony: click here for the virtual tour!

Early next year our museum will relocate to Seattle WA:
Watch this video to learn more:

The JKL Museum of Telephony has an exhibit at the San Francisco Airport. The exhibit is open between Aug 30, 2025 – Aug 16, 2026. You can find the exhibit in Terminal 2, Departures Level 2, Gallery 2A – Post-Security.

See the SFO Museum FAQ info below for information on how to visit the galleries without a boarding pass.

The exhibit contains objects from the collection of the JKL Museum of Telephony, several private individuals, and several other museums.

This project was begun in March of 2024. The JKL Museum of Telephony provided the expertise in regards to historical and technical accuracy. The SFO Museum staff designed and installed all the displays. It was a pleasure to work with the SFO Museum putting this all together.

Photos: Courtesy SFO Museum

From the SFO Museum FAQ:

Who produces the exhibitions?
SFO Museum’s staff of dedicated professionals are responsible for all aspects of exhibition production: curators who conceive exhibitions, select objects, and write gallery labels; registrars who arrange the objects’ transportation and supervise their care and handling while at our facilities; designers who create the visual layout for each exhibition; and preparators who produce custom mounts and furniture, and carefully install the art in galleries located throughout the Airport’s terminals.

Can I visit the galleries without a boarding pass?
Yes. SFO Museum operates more than twenty-five sites throughout the Airport terminals, including fourteen galleries that exhibit a rotating schedule of art, history, photography, science, and cultural exhibitions. Exhibitions and public art located beyond a security checkpoint can be viewed without a boarding pass by prior arrangement with SFO Museum. Please contact curator@flysfo.com for additional details and to schedule a visit. Please note: visits must take place during regular business hours (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm) and visits must be scheduled at least two weeks in advance.

We’ve added a 1970s catalog to our site:
Western Electric Telephone and Apparatus and Equipment, January 1970

This catalog was produced by the Western Electric Defense Activities Division.

The file has been compiled & processed by Remco Enthoven and bookmarked by Paul Fassbender.

We hope you will enjoy this new addition to our site.

The file can also be downloaded from the TCI Library at:
Western Electric Telephone Apparatus and Equipment Catalog

We’ve added a virtual tour to our website. There is a link to the tour in the menu bar of the site but you can also click here to go to the tour.
Be sure to check out the info links and videos embedded in the tour.
More interactive elements will be added in the future.

We hope you will enjoy this virtual tour.

Finished a huge scanning project of over 200 black and white photos showing all of the telephone infrastructure in San Francisco around 1912.
Enjoy browsing through these albums we created:
1912 San Francisco Telephone Exchange Plant Photos

We have put the final touch on our rotary dial AE panel phone by adding a paper mat. It took a while finding the right type of paper. It is not exactly the same as the original but the texture is very close and I think it looks pretty good.The touch tone version has an original mat.The last photo shows both AE type 95 panel phones on display at our museum.

New photos have been added to the photo slider at the bottom of the homepage: https://www.jklmuseum.com/

We added an Western Electric Catalog to our website:
https://jklmuseum.com/we-catalog/
It isn’t dated but it looks like it is from the early 1970s.