Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt

Coordinates: 50°06′16″N 8°40′33″E / 50.10445°N 8.67579°E / 50.10445; 8.67579
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Museum for Communication Frankfurt
Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt
The Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt in 2010
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Former name
  • Museum für Post und Kommunikation
  • Bundespostmuseum
Established1958 (1958)/1990 (1990)
LocationSchaumainkai 53, Museumsufer, Frankfurt, Germany
Coordinates50°06′16″N 8°40′33″E / 50.10445°N 8.67579°E / 50.10445; 8.67579
TypeMuseum
Visitors112,625 (2018)[1]
ArchitectGünter Behnisch
Public transit access

The Museum für Kommunikation (MfK) is a museum of the history of communication in Frankfurt, Germany.[2] It opened on 31 January 1958 under the name Bundespostmuseum (National Postal Museum) and is on Frankfurt's Museumsufer (Museum Riverbank).[3]

The museum was owned by Deutsche Bundespost until 1994. The present building, a modern and transparent glass structure, opened in 1990 and was designed by architect Günter Behnisch.[4] Following the opening of the new building, the museum acquired its present name,[4] and it is now managed by the Museum Trust for Post and Telecommunications, which was established in 1995 during the federal postal reforms that followed re-unification.[5][6]

Exhibition

The main exhibition of the museum is located on the underground level.

telegraph, telephone, radio, television and computer, as well as objects relating to these mediums.[7] It had its beginnings with a collection established in Berlin by Heinrich von Stephan (1831–97), which was expanded by Deutsche Bundespost from 1958.[8][9] It now has displays ranging from the earliest Cuneiform tablets to the latest digital technology.[5][10]

An information center and the museum shop and café are located on the ground level.[11] The first floor features a children's exhibition area, while temporary exhibits are found on the second floor.

  • Telephone booth, Deutsche Reichspost
    Telephone booth, Deutsche Reichspost
  • View from the ground floor to the basement
    View from the ground floor to the basement
  • Stamp: 100 years of the museum for post in Frankfurt
    Stamp: 100 years of the museum for post in Frankfurt
  • Variable value stamp
    Variable value stamp

Depot

DAAG Postbus, Depot Heusenstamm

See also

References

  1. ^ "Besucherzahlen der Frankfurter Museen 2018". Stadtkind Frankfurt - Reflexionen aus dem urbanen Leben (in German). 20 November 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Museum for Communication Frankfurt". Stadt Frankfurt Am Main. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt – Museum für Kommunikation – Sammlungen". Museum für Kommunikation – Sammlungen – Die Sammlungen der Museumsstiftung (in German). Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Museum für Kommunikation - Museum rund um Telekommunikation und andere Kommunikationsformen". Metropolregion Rhein-Main (in German). Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  5. ^ a b "I Want To Go There: Frankfurt Museum for Communication". ERIH. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Museumsstiftung – Kommunikation". Museumsstiftung – Kommunikation (in German). Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  7. ^ a b "Museen – MfK Frankfurt – Museumsstiftung". Museumsstiftung – Kommunikation (in German). Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  8. FAZ.NET
    (in German). Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  9. ^ "Stiftung – Geschichte – Museumsstiftung". Museumsstiftung – Kommunikation (in German). 10 December 1979. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  10. ^ "Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt". Museumsufer Frankfurt. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  11. ^ "Museumscafé & Shop – Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt". Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt – Kommunikation. Gestern, Heute, Morgen (in German). Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  12. ^ "Sammlungsstandort Heusenstamm – Museum für Kommunikation – Sammlungen". Museum für Kommunikation – Sammlungen – Die Sammlungen der Museumsstiftung (in German). Retrieved 30 December 2022.

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