The National Technical Museum in Prague is hosting an exhibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Czech Radio. Entitled One Hundred Years is Just the Beginning, the exhibition features a thousand rare objects that tell the story of Czech public radio broadcasting, some of which date back to its earliest days. Visitors can view the torso of the famous tent from Kbely, where the first public broadcast took place in 1923, as well as a broadcasting desk from the Czech Radio building on Vinohradská Street from which the appeal for help was transmitted on 5 May 1945.
The exhibition also includes a microphone used by Adolf Dobrovolný, the first radio editor, and a radio receiver used by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. Other exhibits include one of the oldest mass-produced superhet receivers and a sound amplifier that resembles an old gramophone.
Visitors to the exhibition can also try out various radio professions for themselves in a special studio. The exhibition will run until the end of this year and will be accompanied by a number of special events and programmes.