The IEEE Global Museum program seeks to preserve key artifacts related to the history of technology and make them available for display to a wide audience. To this end, the History Center is establishing collaborations with local and national museums, private collectors, universities, corporations, and other organizations to curate traveling exhibits, from a single treasured artifact to a full collection, and install them at technology museums or IEEE conferences, facilities, and events around the world. “How Far Can You Go? Edwin Howard Armstrong and the Birth of Our Wireless World” is the pilot exhibit of the Global Museum program. The exhibit made its debut at the IEEE Board Series held at the Sheraton Hotel Times Square in New York City in February 2023, in conjunction with the IEEE Foundation’s 50th anniversary reception.

In partnership with Upland Exhibits, IEEE History Center staff have developed it into a full 800sqft traveling exhibit called Unseen Signals: E. Howard Armstrong’s Radio Revolution. It will launch on November 2, 2024 at the National Museum of Industrial History in Bethlehem, PA, and go on to tour museums throughout the United States until 2028.