Australian Spy Museum Spycraft Gallery

Our collection spans 7x categories related to
espionage and the origins of modern threats

Australian Spy Museum explores the following domains.
Cryptography, Covert Communications, Counter Intel & Tradecraft, Cold War, Cultural Items, Cyber, and Climate Change

Cryptography

Codes and code breaking

The Australian Spy Museum’s cryptography collection begins with Renaissance books on secret writing and progresses through to digital cryptography. Cipher systems represented in the collection range from early manual methods like discs, sliders and tables, then through mechanical and electro-mechanical cipher machines (like Enigma), then transistorised and ultimately digital cipher systems.

Covert Communications

Spy Radios

The Australian Spy Museum’s collection of Covert Comms equipment includes dozens of spy radios from WWII and both sides of the Cold War. Also featured are burst encoders, voice-over-infrared devices and RDF (Radio Direction Finders).

Counter Intel & Tradecraft

Cameras, recorders, bugs, concealments

The Australian Spy Museum’s tradecraft collection includes dozens of recorders, bugs, over 100 spy cameras, microdot cameras, night vision equipment, surveillance receivers, TSCM (Technical Security Counter Measures like bug sweepers), concealments, and more.