Take the tram one stop east from Galeria Dominikanska along Olawska street and you’ll find yourself at either stop Urzad Wojewodski or stop PLac Wroblewskiego. (The tram lines departs in differaent directions from there.) Look back in the direction you came and then to the right and you’ll see a tall brick building in Zygmunta Krasiskiego with antennas on the roof. A post office is located in the ground floor and the Postal and Communications Museum in the first floor. There is a lift beside the stairs but there are 3-4 steps to negotiate to get into the building. The first room we entered looked quite empty until we realised that, what looked like tables in the midle of the room, were all cabinets filled with things laid down. In the second room we found Swedish yellow postboxes a lot smaller than those of today. Walking along you will see uniforms, scales for light letters and heavy packages, places of work, telephones and telegraphs. Please, do have a look at my photos. I got quite excited when I found the old radios like the one I had in the fifties. Radios in those days were pretty big to hold the radio tubes that got hot and needed cooling, when in use. The tubes were rather expensive to produce, sensitive to pushes and used quite a lot of energy. In December 1947 three reseachers William Bradley Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser at Bell labs successfully demonstrated a miniture electronic component, the semiconducter transistor, and got the first patent in 1948. The reseachers got the Nobel Price in 1956. The first transsitor radio was presented in the beginning of the fifties by the French reseacher Herbert Mataré. The transistor radio presented at the museum look wery much like the one my sister used to have. Suddenly you could bring your “transistor” around. It was small, battery operated and iworked at a low voltage. Finally the guard brought as downstairs to a special exhibition concerning post distribution. I believe we spent 1½ hour in the museum.

Amazing trip in time, maybe it is not the most modern museum in Wroclaw, but also presented items are analog ;) you can find here very old post but also more modern tv, mobile phone or desk phone which you remember from your childhood. Saturday free of charge