There are those who turn on their television to see if it is raining just outside the window.
Vicariously, many viewers readily accept what they see on television as personal experience.
Billions watch television screens religiously for many hours daily – the cathode ray tube has
become a glass-faced altar. Television is powerful and paradoxical. Although familiar to nearly
everyone worldwide, very few are aware how the modern medium evolved.

It is the mission of Televisor Museum International to educate the public through our numerous
scholarly publications that focus on the earliest beginnings of the television medium, and through
the various exhibitions and demonstrations of vintage machines from the collection. Since the
Museum founding in 1996, TMI has rapidly gained an international reputation as a center for
scholarship and for the preservation of relics from the dawn of television history.

These are indeed exciting times for the Televisor Museum International. Now, with the completion
of the Research Center's new wing, the future of TMI has never been brighter. This facility ushers
in a new era for the museum and, on behalf of the Board of Trustees, I would like to express the
museum's deepest gratitude for the generous contributions of our committed sponsors and patrons
in making this most recent expansion possible.

Sincerely,

Steve Gompf, Executive Director
Televisor Museum International