Museum of Communication, Nuremberg, Germany

The Museum of Communication Nuremberg is located in the Lessingstraße 6 and thus in the same building as the DB Museum in Nuremberg. It emerged from the Royal Bavarian Postal Museum. With the museums for Communication in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main and the Philatelic Archive in Bonn, it is part of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications.

History

The " Bavarian Postal Museum " originated from showpieces of the 1882 and 1869 successfully carried out in Nuremberg Bavarian exhibitions, a collection of postage stamps of Bavaria and the Universal Postal Union countries and a number of old telegraph and telephone sets. The articles were in 1899 occupied by the railway administration building first housed in a let by the city, makeshift and released to the public in 1902. After substantial enrichment of the collection found a permanent home in the 1914-1925 by the Bavarian State, the city of Nuremberg and the German Empire jointly built museum building corner sand and Lessing Street, which was opened on 22 April 1925. It has since formed the Railway Museum, the " Bavarian Transport Museum " and illustrated the history of the postal and telecommunications authorities in Bavaria. After the Second World War, it was the property of Bavaria in the management of Oberpostdirektion Nuremberg. Due to high wartime losses and spatial accommodation difficulties, the collection was not available until the 1950s.

Permanent exhibition

In November 2010 opened a revamped presentation, the people and their communication at the center, from the first cry of a newborn to the Internet. In four exhibition rooms is the understanding with sound, images and writing as well as using the Internet at the center. With 400 objects function mechanisms are represented by communication. Interactive stations for children and adults exist in the writing workshop, the pneumatic tube or as a presenter in TV studio.

A key design element of the exhibition is individually tailored to the respective space theme architecture.

Room 1 - communication with tones: Here is all about listening and speaking: The human speech, animal sounds and ringing phones await the visitors. So you can concentrate on listening, the light is dimmed.

Room 2 - Communication with images: bright, green, and square - the second room is completely different structure than the first. Because the communication includes facial expressions, gestures, and even the clothes. The moving images also play a role: If you wish, in the television studio film itself.

Room 3 - Communication with font: The font is the subject in the third space: For the visitor and the visitor provides an overview of characters on the origin of the letters to the pressure and the secret writing. Scripture as repositories of knowledge is the motto of the library wall. In the writing workshop itself can be put pen or pencil. The transportation of Scripture assumes the post; whether in yellow vehicles ( list of postal vehicles ), a post- subway ( post- Munich subway ) or the pneumatic tube (pipe postal networks in Germany ) to participate.

Room 4 - Communication and Logistics: The fourth room is linked to the transport of Scripture. Just: Now added goods, parcels and packages. A miniature of the packing station can be visited. In addition, the development is shown by the network of messengers rider to the internet.

Room 4 - Internet: sounds, images and writing are combined on the Internet. How the Internet has changed the lives, tell his users and user personally to transparent video columns.

Space "Internet"