The MZTV Museum of Television 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.Together with related original papers, discs, books, magazines, toys and other ephemera the collection offers some 10,000 objects to scholars and students as well as the general public.
The Museum’s mandate is to exhibit the world’s most comprehensive collection of North American television receivers for the formative 50-year period from the 1920s to the 1970s. The MZTV Museum also aims to tell the story of the medium and to contribute to the understanding of the impact of television on the people who watch it.