Muzium Telekom
Colonial telephone exchange turned museum, tracing Malaysian communications from the telegraph era.
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This guide to Muzium Telekom in Kuala Lumpur opens with a 1984 plan to demolish a 1928 telephone exchange for a 24-storey tower, then rewinds to the operators who once ran the city's calls by hand from this room. It follows the building through the Japanese Occupation, when the network collapsed, and the years after. Listen for whose intervention finally changed the building's fate.
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