University Cultural CollectionsTangible Evidence of Knowledge

Grote Reber Museum

The Grote Reber Museum at the Mt. Pleasant Radio Telescope Observatory, houses the Grote Reber Collection. Grote Reber was the first radio astonomer to realise that he could hear signals from space by turning his radio antennae skywards.  This discovery and his subsequent work in the area opened up a whole new field of scientific research. The Grote Reber Collection provides evidence of his discoveries and the work undertaken to achieve them. 

Grote Reber Museum houses a model of the original "Reber Telescope", displays of Grote Reber's life's work and his many eclectic interests.  A unique feature, installed within the Museum, is Reber's original radio shack, the control building for the radio telescope array at Bothwell with Reber's original radio equipment in place.

Spotlight

Grote Reber, Radio Astonomy, and the University of Tasmania by Professor John Dickey