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MZTV Museum of Television The MZTV Museum and Archive seeks to protect, preserve & promote the Receiving Instruments of Television

The MZTV Museum and Archive seeks to protect, preserve and promote the Receiving Instruments of Television History. Whereas other North American Museums of Broadcasting feature Programs, ours is unique in its focus on the History of the Technology, as well as on the Sets Themselves. Together with related original papers, discs, books, magazines, toys and other ephemera the collection offers some 10,000 objects to scholars and students as well as the general public. The Museum’s mandate is to exhibit the world’s most comprehensive collection of North American Television Receivers for the formative fifty-year period from the 1920s to the 1970s. The MZTV Museum also aims to tell the story of the medium and to contribute to the understanding of the impact of television on the people who watch it.

Today we’re giving you a peek into our archive with these awesome illustrated covers of magazines from the 1950s.
09/04/2026

Today we’re giving you a peek into our archive with these awesome illustrated covers of magazines from the 1950s.

09/03/2026
09/02/2026

CNE is just around the corner! The TVs in out museum have been a part of the excitement and wonder of so many exhibitions and fairs since they were first introduced to the public

08/23/2026

Only 5 exist today and one is right here in Toronto.

08/21/2026

Just a few of our k***s here.

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What's the longest you've ever watched TV?🥔🛋 📺
07/23/2026

What's the longest you've ever watched TV?

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07/02/2026

Waiting for the match to start? Come check out the MZTV! Located only a short walk from the Toronto Stadium ⚽️📺

07/01/2026

🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day! We’re closed today, but you can visit us tomorrow to see the Canadian made Mercury 7 Orbit TV, and explore our collection of vintage TVs.

1929 | June 27: Herbert E. Ives and his colleagues at in , produced and demonstrated colour mechanically.The firs...
06/27/2026

1929 | June 27: Herbert E. Ives and his colleagues at in , produced and demonstrated colour mechanically.

The first images were of a bouquet of roses and an . The system used a single spiral, through the holes of which light from three coloured sources was passed.

A mechanical system was used to 50-line colour images from New York, New York to

06/21/2026

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there! ❤️
As we celebrate today, we’re also paying tribute to two pioneering “fathers” of television: John Logie Baird and Philo T. Farnsworth.
Visit the MZTV Museum to see some of television’s earliest “children” and discover the story behind the fathers of TV.

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Toronto, ON

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Tuesday 2pm - 5pm
Wednesday 2pm - 5pm
Thursday 2pm - 5pm
Friday 2pm - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm

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+14165997339

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