Moses Znaimer’s MZTV Museum of Television 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. The Museum exhibits the world’s most comprehensive collection of television receivers for the formative sixty-year period from the 1920s to the 1980s. It also offers specialized displays devoted to receiver design, to TV signals in space, to the museum’s signature Philco Predicta line of sets, to celebrity sets from Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, to the rarest television on the planet, the 1939 Worlds’ Fair RCA Phantom Teleceiver, to the first star of television, Felix The Cat, as well as special tributes to the inventors of mechanical and electronic television, John Logie Baird and Philo T. Farnsworth. The Museum aims to tell the story of the medium, to contribute to the understanding of the impact of television on the people who watch it, and to recover the names and reputations of the Pioneers who invented it. Together with original papers, discs, books, magazines, toys, spare parts, and other pop culture ephemera, the collection offers over 20,000 objects to scholars and students as well as the general public.
Moses is best known for his outstanding achievements in television, his contributions to the Canadian music industry, and now, for his newest and ongoing role as a Champion for Canada’s 15.3 million people, aged 45 plus. In the 1970s, long before Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, Moses...
Many answers have been given to the question "Why do people collect?" Too many for comfort suggest neuroses of various kinds. Collectors do it because they feel alienated from the real world and must create one of their own. They do it to be godlike and controlling. They do it out of pride or jealousy, or to keep objects...
| Adults | $10 |
| Seniors and Students | $5 |
| Groups 10 + | $5 |
| CARP Members | FREE |
| Children 12 and under | FREE |
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