Asheville Radio Museum

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 around 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