The SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention (formerly the American Museum of Radio and Electricity) is an interactive museum located in Bellingham, Washington, United States, which offers educational experiences for audiences of all ages through galleries and public programs that illustrate the development and use of electricity, radio and the related inventions that changed the course of human history. The museum features a collection of artifacts showcasing four centuries of human innovation from 1580 into the 1950s. Museum history The museum began in 1985 as an informal collection of radio sets, spare parts, schematics, recordings, and vintage magazines and manuals owned by a Bellingham resident, Jonathan Winter Winter's collection continued to grow, and by 1998, the Bellingham Antique Radio Museum was officially established, with the more than 800 radio sets from Winter's collection forming the core of the museum's collection. The museum took on the name "American Museum of Radio and Electricity" in 2001 when it moved into its facility and John Jenkins, a former sales and marketing executive at Microsoft, retired and became co-curator of the museum. Jenkins added his extensive collection to the museum, which included early wireless and electrical devices, and rare books with first editions dating back to 1560 and written by Robert Boyle, Michael Faraday, C. F. du Fay, Benjamin Franklin, Luigi Galvani, William Gilbert, Joseph Henry, Heinrich Hertz, James Clerk Maxwell, Pieter van Musschenbroek, Georg Ohm, Hans Christian Ørsted, Alessandro Volta, among others. Early in its history, the museum was featured on An American Moment. In 2012, the American Museum of Radio and Electricity became Spark Museum of Electrical Invention. Collections The museum's collections include: Dawn of the Electrical Age (1600–1800) Electricity Sparks Invention (1800–1900) The Beginning of Radio and the Wireless Era (1863–1920) Radio Enters the Home (1920–1927) The Golden Age of Radio (1928–1950) Notable exhibits Exhibits include: an extensive "War of the Currents" exhibit, featuring one of a kind artifacts. The exhibit also includes a working replica of Tesla's "Egg of Columbus". a reproduction of the radio room of the Titanic complete with original Marconi wireless apparatus a working 1929 theremin and a modern Moog Theremin that visitors can play (RCA Theremin Model AR 1264, No. 200085 a complete collection of Atwater Kent "breadboard" radios one of the largest collections of 19th century electromagnetic apparatus in the country, including early telegraph, telephone, electric motors, dynamos and induction coils a collection of electric lighting