The collection compiled by James Comisar conserves more historic television costumes, props, sets, and related ephemera than any other archive (including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.), and it maintains a level of collection care that leads the nation in the preservation of Hollywood memorabilia.

The Museum of Television’s core exhibition will be a 30,000 square foot decade-by-decade journey through TV that allows guests to explore the social impact of television programming and the reciprocal influence of American TV and popular culture.

Highly visual and interactive galleries immerse and educate guests about the humble beginnings and the limitless future potential of the television medium.

A time tunnel portal empowers visitors to flash back to the black and white rotary-dialed origins of America in the 1940s and the first flickering moments of broadcast television. The tunnel leads to an intro theater that will be hosted by a contemporary TV star.

Phoenix Business Journal, Oct. 19, 2012

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Earlier this year, James Comisar from Los Angeles, CA spoke at the Phoenix Community Alliance quarterly board of directors meeting. He stated his interest in opening the Museum of Television in downtown Phoenix to complement and expand on an already formidable museum community in the Valley. The museum would be uniquely poised to offer residents and visitors an experience unlike anything now being offered in the city, state, or nation. Think "The MIM of Television."

It will be a unique, interactive museum dedicated to the reciprocal relationship between American television and American culture, and it will take visitors on a fun, stimulating walk back through our country's dynamic history. Visitors will have a chance to gauge how much our nation has changed, to understand how and why some of our collective views and tastes have evolved, to think about how television has influenced their own lives, as well as to consider what might come next.

The Museum of Television will offer a full range of experiences that illuminate the story of American television; to provide educational content for schools and community programs; to offer local children, families, students, and individuals a day filled with fun and activities; to provide residents, tourists, and conventioneers with an incomparable entertainment experience; to improve the community by raising awareness for local and national charities; and to operate the institution with the highest standards of integrity and professionalism.

A museum is only possible with an artifact collection to support it, and the collection that Comisar had built over two decades will distinguish the Museum of Television as housing more of television’s material heritage than any other institution in the world and receiving the highest level of collection care anywhere.

Efforts are now underway to locate a site for the museum and to seek local financial and community support for such an endeavor. More details linked below: