IEEE Global Museum

The IEEE Global Museum presented by IEEE History Center promotes an understanding of electrotechnology and its impact upon society through traveling exhibits for IEEE members and the public, from a single treasured artifact to a full collection.

IEEE Traveling Exhibits

Unseen Signals: E. Howard Armstrong’s Radio Revolution

Unseen Signals reveals the origins of our wireless world through the life and career of radio pioneer E. Howard Armstrong.

COMING SOON: Microchips that Shook the World

A highly mobile, interactive exhibit that explains why microchips were designed and engineered, and the roles they play in electronic technology.

Modular Museum

The modular museum is based on a series of interpretive banners on the history of electrotechnology developed for IEEE Societies but available to all.

IEEE Society Exhibits

In Charge for the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society

If conductors are the roads, then dielectrics and insulators are the intersections and traffic signs. In Charge places this enabling infrastructure at the center of its account of technological progress. It focuses on power engineering and telecommunications, the principal fields that preoccupied the founding members of the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Electrical Insulation, the predecessor organization to the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS).

Connecting Our Mobile World for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society

The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) has brought together academia, industry, and government to share electrical and electronic advances in mobile radio, motor vehicles, and land transportation. Connecting Our Mobile World reveals key events in these fields of interest, from the rise and fall of early electric vehicles around the turn of the twentieth century to the development of handheld cellphones and GPS devices in the 1980s. It incorporates a specially designed timeline game to celebrate the Society’s 75th anniversary and the 100th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference.mm

Powering Up for the IEEE Power and Energy Society

Powering Up’s signature fabric wall weaves the rise and fall of the GE and Westinghouse high-voltage laboratories into the expansion of power transmission networks across North America. Accompanying banners share early American landmarks in renewable energy generation (several of which are IEEE Milestones) and chart the evolution of high-voltage underground cable technology.

Discover the History of Electrotechnology

Explore the full collection of interpretive banners and dive into the fascinating history! The Modular Museum presents a series of expertly curated banners, offering insights into groundbreaking innovations, influential figures, and key moments that shaped the field.

Click below to browse the interpretive banners and discover how electrotechnology has transformed our world!

Browse the Interpretive Banners

IEEE Public Visibility Collaborations

The IEEE Global Museum works with other IEEE organizational units to enhance public awareness of IEEE’s legacy and current activities through historical exhibits.

Consumer Electronics Show 2024

History Center staff worked in partnership with the IEEE Corporate Communications and Brand Marketing team to create historical exhibits for the IEEE Technology Innovation Exploration pavilion at the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, held in January 2024. CNN called CES “the largest tech conference of the year” with an official attendance of 135,000.

IEEE Medal of Honor Wall of Fame

At the IEEE VICs Summit and Awards Ceremony in May 2024, in partnership with IEEE Awards we unveiled the IEEE Medal of Honor Wall of Fame. It will become a permanent fixture of the IEEE Awards ceremony and travel to other IEEE meetings and events. Loosely based on the permanent installation at the IEEE Operations Center in New Jersey, the Wall incorporates an interactive touchscreen display offering biographies of the winners from the ETHW and videos of past award ceremonies.

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