Enigma (museum)
 The museum in January 2020. |
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| place | Copenhagen, Øster Allé 1 |
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Postal Museum
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| opening | 2017 |
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Jane Sandberg
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The Museum Enigma ( Danish Enigma - Museum for post, tele og kommunikation , German "Enigma - Museum for Post , Telecommunications and Communication " ) is Denmark's national postal museum . It deals with postal and telecommunications history .
history
Most of the museum is still under construction and is located in the former post office (picture) in the Østerbro district at Øster Allé 1 in Copenhagen . A first, smaller part was opened in January 2017. It includes a café , shop , post office and a small conference center .
The museum exhibition is expected to open in 2019. When fully completed, the museum will have an exhibition area of around 6000 m² and will then replace the former Post & Tele Museum . It had existed since 1913 and was last located at Købmagergade No. 37 (in downtown Copenhagen) before it was closed at the end of 2015.
The name of the new museum is derived from the Greek αἴνιγμα (aínigma) , the Greek word for " riddle ". The museum director explained:
"Vi vil være stedet, hvor vi gennem udstillinger, debatter, undervisning, samtale and forskning bidrager til, at vi all bliver bedre til at afkode de gåder, som ligger i al communication, vi som modern borrower bliver del af."
"We will be the place where, through exhibitions, debates, lessons, conversation and research, we help solve the riddles that lie in all of the communication that we belong in as modern citizens."
In addition, Enigma is also the name of one of the most important exhibits in the museum, namely a rotor key machine , which was used before and during World War II to encrypt the communications of the German military . Specifically, the machine exhibited in the museum (picture) is a particularly rare model, an Enigma-M1 , and at the same time the oldest known marine Enigma , dating from 1934.
In future, the museum is to be open daily with free admission.
Web links
- Official website (Danish), accessed February 22, 2018.
- Recovery of an M1 in Denmark History of the find of the Enigma-M1 exhibited in the museum (English), accessed on February 23, 2018.
- Photo of the Enigma-M1 on display in the museum, accessed on February 23, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The world's oldest naval ENIGMA (English). Retrieved February 22, 2018.
- ↑ History of the Museum , accessed February 22, 2018.
- ↑ Det nye museum fik sit navn (Danish), accessed on February 22, 2018.
- ^ History of the Museum , accessed on February 22, 2018.
- ↑ Enigma - Denmark's Post and Tele Museum gets a modern makeover in new location , accessed on February 22, 2018.
Coordinates: 55 ° 40 ′ 50 ″ N , 12 ° 34 ′ 40 ″ E