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    • ABOUT
    • AU 1900-1960
    • AU 1960-2000
    • AU FULL LIST
    • AU PHONE BOXES
    • AU PRIVATE PAYPHONES
    • BRITISH PAYPHONES
    • BRITISH PHONE BOXES
    • HOME
      • About
    • LINKS
    • US PHONE BOOTHS
Australian Phonebooths
FLAG TYPES
B-FL-01Flag Type A.P.0. Standard Cabinet
B-FL-02Tropical Type Queensland.
B-FL-03Multiple banks of cabinets
TEMPERATE TYPES DOMED
B-TE-01Victoria “Modified-Standard”
B-TE-02Temperate Louvre-Glazed Wooden Cabinet.
EARLY EXPERIMENTAL
B-EXP-00Earliest Cabinets
B-EXP-01Steel Cabinet with Domed Asbestos Cement Roof
B-EXP-02Precast Pipe-Type” Concrete Cabinet
B-EXP-03Concrete Cabinet cast in situ
B-EXP-04Experimental Louvre-Glazed Steel Cabinet
B-EXP-05Other Experimental Cabinets
ALUMINIUM
B-AL-01Three Panel
B-AL-02Standard Al. Flat Roof with door
B-AL-03Telstra Standard Al. no door
HEAD BOXES
B-HA-01“Head-Box” Type of Cabinet
B-HA-02Street Aluminium CM+
B-HA-03Telecom Plastic Dome
B-HA-04Footpath Payphone enclosures
B-HA-04ASphere Enclosure
B-HA-05Standard Kiosk
B-HA-06Flush wall mounted
B-HA-07Vandal proof SS enclosure
B-HA-07JCDecaux Street Furniture Booth

Archive

  • January 2026
  • November 2025
  • September 2025
  • August 2025
  • July 2025
  • June 2025
  • May 2025

Categories

  • Adco
  • Aluminium telephone box
  • Associated Automation/Elliot Automation
  • ATM (Automatic Telephone Manufacturing Company)
  • Australia
  • Automatic Electric (USA)
  • Benner Nawman
  • British Payphone
  • British Telephone Box
  • Card Phone
  • Cast Iron Phone Box
  • China
  • Club Phone
  • COCOT
  • Coin Collector
  • Concrete Phone Box
  • CT3
  • Denmark
  • Early
  • Elcotel
  • Enclosure
  • Experimental
  • Free Standing
  • Germany
  • GPO/BT (British Telecom)
  • GPT (GEC-Plessey)
  • Gray
  • GTE
  • Head Box
  • Japan
  • JC Decaux
  • Landis & Gyr
  • Manufacture Place
  • Mounting
  • Northern Electric (later Nortel)
  • One Slot / Fortress
  • Painted or Stainless Steel
  • Phone Box
  • PMG/Telstra (Australia)
  • Private
  • Protel
  • Quadrum
  • Quortech
  • Schlumberger
  • Siemens (Germany)
  • Spain
  • STC (Standard Telephones and Cable
  • Supervised
  • Sweden
  • Taiwan
  • Telephone Box
  • Three Slot
  • Timber Phone Box
  • Uncategorized
  • United Kingdom
  • US Phone Booth
  • USA
  • Usage
  • Variable Tariff
  • Wall Mounted
  • Western Electric / AT&T / Bell System

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Opening times

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Sat/Sun: 10.00 a 20.00
Monday: Closed.

The Museum is closed to the public on May 1, June 27, December 24, 25 and 31, 2023, and January 1, 2024.

Admission is free of charge.

Group Visits

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Audioguide

An approach to the Museum’s collection through thirteen audio tracks referring to great sculptural works made by pre-Hispanic, European and Argentine cultures.

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    • ABOUT
    • AU 1900-1960
    • AU 1960-2000
    • AU FULL LIST
    • AU PHONE BOXES
    • AU PRIVATE PAYPHONES
    • BRITISH PAYPHONES
    • BRITISH PHONE BOXES
    • HOME
      • About
    • LINKS
    • US PHONE BOOTHS
 

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