Museum voor Communicatie
ll you have to do is press a few digits and, hey presto!, you can talk with a friend or cousin who lives as far as one hundred kilometers or more away from you. Bet you would like to know how that works! If you do, you should definitely go to the Museum for Communication in The Hague. Here you can see how people who do not live near each other keep in touch. ‘Communication’ is the posh word for this. You can communicate by mail, of course, and by telephone or telegraph, and, a recent invention, by computer. For instance, by Internet.
These days it is all much easier and faster than it used to be. In the old days, for instance, telephone exchanges had to be operated completely by hand. In the museum they have copied such an exchange and you are allowed to operate it. You can also try out a telephone which won’t just let you talk together, you’ll also see the person you are talking to. This is a museum in which you can actively do and try lots of things, you are even allowed to surf on the Internet.
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