Museum for Communication Nuremberg

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Museum for Communication Nuremberg
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Entrance area
Data
place Nuremberg
Art
Communication museum, technology museum
architect No information
opening 1902
Number of visitors (annually) 121,201 (2017)
operator
management
Annabelle Hornung (since June 1st, 2020)
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-953919

The Museum for Communication Nuremberg is located at Lessingstrasse 6 in the building of the Nuremberg Transport Museum . It emerged from the Royal Bavarian Postal Museum . With the Museums for Communication in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main and the Archive for Philately in Bonn, it belongs to the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications .

history

The DB Museum , the Deutsche Bahn company museum , is located in the building of the so-called Transport Museum . The origins of the two museums go back to the 19th century, when the Kingdom of Bavaria kept its own post office and railway even after the establishment of the German Empire in 1871. The establishment of a Royal Bavarian Transport Museum in Nuremberg on Marientorgraben demonstrated the country's independence in this area. In 1899 an exhibition on the history of the railroad was opened, which in 1902 was expanded to include a section on the history of the Bavarian post and telegraphy. Construction on the current location began in 1914. Delayed by the First World War, the current museum building was not completed until 1925. After the First World War, the Bavarian Post was gradually integrated into the Reichspost, and the railway system became part of the Reichsbahn. Since then, there have been two independent museums under one roof, financed by the Post and Railways or their successor companies.

During the Second World War the entire museum was closed; important exhibits were lost. It was not until 1955 that the Post-Museum was able to reopen with a modest exhibition. From 1988 to 1991 there was extensive renovation and expansion. Since 1995 the house with the museums in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main has belonged to the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications (MSPT). The MSPT was founded by Deutsche Post and Deutsche Telekom. The building has been known as the “Museum for Communication Nuremberg” since 2000. Temporary exhibitions, museum and media educational offers as well as events ranging from lectures to science slams complete the offers in the permanent exhibition.

Permanent exhibition

Room 3 - communication with writing

A redesigned presentation opened in November 2010 that puts people and their communication at the center, from the first cry of a newborn to the internet . Communication with sounds, images and writing as well as with the help of the internet is the focus in four exhibition rooms. Functional mechanisms of communication are represented on 400 objects. Participation stations for children and adults alike exist in the writing workshop , at the pneumatic tube or as a moderator in the television studio.

An essential design element of the exhibition is the architecture that is individually tailored to the respective room theme.

Room 1 - Communication with sounds : The visitors are welcomed by a large-scale media installation by the company Triad (Berlin), which uses sounds, images and writing to focus on the ability to hear, see and write. The main design elements of the exhibition are the architecture and the room colors, which are tailored to the content. In the first themed room, where everything revolves around listening and speaking, semicircular walls are reminiscent of sound waves. Human language is an important issue. Visitors can experience how we learn to speak or how we use language to shape our individual and social relationships. The light is darkened so that you can concentrate on hearing. The ear always receives new tones: signal horns, drums and bells; Yodels and whistle signals, animal noises, telephone tones, human speech and scraps of conversation, music and the rattle of the electromechanical telephone exchange. In addition, there are many objects from the slit drum to the telephone that produce or transmit acoustic messages. The communication options of the animals, remote communication with signal instruments and telephoning are also discussed.

Room 2 - communication with pictures : light, green, and square - the second room is completely different from the first. With the help of films, visitors can find out how we, often unconsciously, communicate with facial expressions and gestures or what role fashion plays in our self-expression. The visual language of pictograms and signs as well as photography and television are also discussed in this area. Participation offers include a crane game that can be controlled with gestures and an offer on the subject of logos.

Room 3 - Communication with writing : The ability to write is another form of human communication after hearing and seeing. This space is laid out as a line, just like the writing, which consists of a sequence of individual characters. Tall steles show writings from early advanced cultures and at the same time document the importance of writing for the economy, the state, religion, the transfer of knowledge and cultural identity. In the secret workshop you learn that people have always thought about how to keep messages secret from unauthorized persons. The great importance that Gutenberg's invention of printing had for media development is illustrated using the example of the daily newspaper as a mass medium. In the subsequent area of ​​transport, the logistical requirements for the effective dispatch of writing and other goods become clear. Since the late Middle Ages, logistics networks have been and are being set up by the Post using the latest means of transport, from pedestrians and stagecoach lines to rail mail, road vehicles of all kinds and airplanes.

A special highlight in the area of ​​writing is the replica of the burial chamber of Sennedjem . The lavishly painted grave with texts from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead shows the way of Sennedjem and his wife through the realm of the dead and proves the importance of images and writing for cult and religion. In the writing workshop , visitors can pick up a pen or pencil themselves, and the pneumatic tube invites them to send messages.

Room 4 - network worlds

Room 4 - Network Worlds : The Network Worlds area, which was redesigned in 2013, is connected to the themed rooms for communication with sounds, images and writing in the museum. In digitized form, they can be used simultaneously and interactively on the World Wide Web. Today, the internet provides us with seemingly endless possibilities to use content and information worldwide, to share it with others or to generate it ourselves. It is the basis of modern digital communication. Both the technical components such as computers, smartphones, tablets, servers or websites and how we all use them are constantly changing.

The modern (media) person moves in the world of the real and the virtual, for example when sitting on the train and ordering pizza for dinner online. In our dual role as prosumer, i.e. as producer and consumer of content, we should be able to use all possibilities of digital and analog communication wisely. At the same time, people have to be able to assess the chances of their dual role as sender and recipient of messages; this requires competent handling of the media. As in the other museum rooms, the contents are conveyed to visitors through objects, media stations and interactive hands-on offers such as a media competence test.

literature

  • Manual dictionary of the postal system ; 2nd Edition; Pp. 537-538
  • Guide through the Nuremberg Transport Museum; 1925
  • The Bayerland; 36th year; Bayerland Publishing House; Munich 1925; P. 233 ff.
  • The collection of the Bavarian Post Museum in Nuremberg; Nuremberg 1931
  • Communication and postal history made clear. 100 years of the Museum for Communication Nuremberg; Nuremberg 2005
  • Museum portrait: From the postal museum to the museum for communication. The new permanent exhibition of the Museum for Communication Nuremberg (Stefan Kley). In: Museum heute, No. 40, 2011, pp. 5–9.
  • Vera Losse / Beate Spiegel (eds.): Communication and postal history made clear. 100 years Museum for Communication Nuremberg, Nuremberg 2005 (this publication can be used as evidence of the museum's history).

Web links

Commons : Museum for Communication Nuremberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nuremberg in figures 2018. (PDF) In: nuernberg.de. Statistical Office of the City of Nuremberg, accessed on July 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ The grave of Sennedjem in Deir el - Medine Museum for Communication Nuremberg, accessed on October 1, 2018 (pdf; 481 kB)

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 44 ″  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 28 ″  E