MZTV Museum of Television

Moses Znaimer’s MZTV Museum seeks to protect, preserve & promote the receiving instruments of TV History. Whereas other North American museums of broadcasting feature programs, ours is unique in its focus on the history & evolution of the tech & on the sets themselves The Museum exhibits the world’s most comprehensive collection of TV receivers for the formative 60yr period from the 1920s to the 1980s. It offers displays devoted to receiver design, to TV signals in space, & to the museum’s signature Philco Predicta line of sets. It's home to sets from Marilyn Monroe & Elvis Presley; to the 1939 Worlds’ Fair RCA Phantom Teleceiver, the rarest TV on the planet; to Felix The Cat, the 1st star of TV; & to tributes to John Logie Baird & Philo Farnsworth, the inventors of mechanical & electronic TV The Museum tells the story of the medium, to contribute to the understanding of the impact of TV on the people who watch it, & to recover the names & reputations of the Pioneers who invented it