Asheville Radio Museum

Asheville Radio Museum Radio waves are amazing things! Cell phones, GPS, wireless internet routers, remote car door openers. It's all radio. See working history. Come visit!
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The South's largest teaching museum about how radio was discovered and made useful, along with large displays of vintage home radio and ham radio equipment. Radio is what enables us to have cell phones, GPS and wireless home internet. Learn about its fascinating history! Free admission to all. If you have a GPS, you set it to 16 Fernihurst Drive, which is the address of the free parking garage aro

und 100 feet from the Elm Building where the museum is located (room 315). If your GPS does not recognize this address, set it to 283 Victoria Road which will bring you to the corner of Fernihurst Drive. Turn at the corner (there is only one way to turn), go one block to the building that says Conference Center on the front. Proceed to the back of this building to enter the parking garage. Exit the elevator lobby of the garage, walk straight ahead to Elm Building, entering it on the "short" side (straight ahead). Proceed to the Elm elevator lobby in the middle of the building and go to the 3rd floor. Look down the hallway to your left and you will see a small sign ahead that says Asheville Radio Museum. Why a Radio Museum? "...If someone had the time and money it would be a beautiful thing to assemble a radio museum. A profitable afternoon might be spent walking through such an interesting collection and looking over the various types of radio apparatus from the days of Hertz down to our latest Super-Heterodyne and present-day commercial sending station equipment. It would be an education complete in itself. We would smile, and perhaps laugh, at the original model coherer, or the primal tuning coil, or the first sending and receiving sets. Just so, the imaginary visitor who visited this radio museum twenty-five years from now would smile at our present efforts, if he did not laugh out loud." Hugo Gernsback
Editor, Radio News
February 1925

03/21/2026

Museum open from noon to 3:00 today. I'm bringing donuts!

02/03/2026

We reopen THIS SATURDAY, February 7th, 12:00-3:00 (or longer). Drop by!

01/18/2026

Hello everyone, here are some updates during our winter break. Work is commencing on our Zenith Stratosphere radio. It's in working condition but it's overdue for new capacitors.
We've started adding other media types to the collection such as small film projectors, early telephones, phonographs... we're even working on putting together a "show your old movies" night. That will include 8 mm, Super 8, and 16 mm (and 16 mm sound if we can locate a projector).
We are extending our Saturday hours. Official hours are now noon to 3:00, and of course we'll stay later as we are happy to spend time with people. We are always looking for members; there are no dues, just a monthly meeting and occasional events. Ham radio operators, technicians, or just interested parties. You don't need any particular skills.

12/13/2025

We're closed for winter break and will be reopening in February. Drop by! Saturdays 12-3.

10/26/2025

Asheville Radio Museum. Next meeting is Thursday Nov. 6th at
10:30 AM. AB-Tech Asheville. All welcomed!

10/26/2025

Never resting on our laurels, we periodically add new pieces to the museum collection. Bill restored this fantastic . It absolutely fills the room with rich, enveloping sound.

Ron and Mike test the abilities of our new antenna array, communicating as far away as Germany. Meanwhile Kyle unstuck t...
10/11/2025

Ron and Mike test the abilities of our new antenna array, communicating as far away as Germany. Meanwhile Kyle unstuck the motor on a small Garrard add-on turntable from the 1950s. Thank you to the nearly dozen people who visited the museum today.

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09/27/2025

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09/21/2025

THANK YOU, EVERYONE!
We are so happy you joined us for the Market!

Great turnout for today's Flea Market.
09/20/2025

Great turnout for today's Flea Market.

Quite a few pictures of our current museum. Please come and visit. We are generally there Saturdays March through Novemb...
08/19/2025

Quite a few pictures of our current museum. Please come and visit. We are generally there Saturdays March through November from one to 3 o'clock or so. Meetings monthly usually the first or second Thursday of each month at 10:30 in the morning. Feel free to inquire if you'd like to drop by.

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A B Tech College, Room 306 Elm Building (look Below For Detailed GPS Directions)
Asheville, NC
28801

Opening Hours

12pm - 3pm

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