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The Radio and Democracy Museum consists of 6 sections including 4 rooms and 2 salons, and is accessed through a small entrance hall. The entrance hall briefly explains the relationship between democracy and radio, accompanied by two visuals. Each section includes information panels that describe the general political atmosphere and important radio events of the time, as well as important visuals from that period.
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The first section, which covers events and radio developments from 1921-1939, includes the following information: on July 2, 1921, the first live radio broadcast took place, a heavyweight boxing match in Jersey City that was listened to at 200 points along the Atlantic coast. In 1922, Lenin took action to quickly implement and popularize wireless telegraph techniques and began radio broadcasts in Moscow in the early 1920s. In August 1925, as a result of Lenin’s efforts while he was still alive, the world’s first shortwave radio broadcast was made from the Russian capital of Moscow. In 1926, before Hitler’s Propaganda Minister Goebbels used radio for propaganda purposes, the Soviet Union used radio in international diplomacy to demand the return of Bessarabia from Romania. When Moscow Radio opened in 1929, it broadcast in 4 languages, but by 1933, due to efforts to spread the communist revolution and the regime around the world, this number had increased to 11.
The museum open to visitors free of charge between 09.00 – 17.00 every day except Sunday and Monday.
Address : 967 Sok. No: 16 Basmane / İZMİR
Contact : +90 232 484 14 83 / +90 232 484 53 00 – 2949