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The experts on the history, present and future of communication
About us
In the multiple award-winning museum building on Schaumainkai, you will gain a comprehensive insight into the history of communication. Special features include the Art and Communication Department and the lively offerings of the Children’s Workshop.
In the permanent exhibition “Mediengeschichte|n neu erzählt!” you can experience the development of communication on 2,500 square meters. With the help of groundbreaking inventions, curious experiences and unusual fates, we span the arc from the cuneiform tablet to the data glasses.
On the 2nd floor, in addition to the hands-on area of the children’s workshop, there is the Forum – an exhibition space for smaller temporary exhibitions. On the 2nd floor, large temporary exhibitions are presented on an area of 550 square meters. The museum roof houses a radio station that can be visited several times a week.
Your visit
A visit to the museum is again possible without advance notification. Admission to the museum is currently only permitted with negative proof (vaccinated, recovered, tested).
According to the state hygiene concept and with limited numbers of people in the exhibitions, we contribute to a relaxed visit to the museum.
We, and especially the telephone sheep, look forward to seeing you!
Your museum team
Admission fees
Adults from 18 years: € 6- Reduced admission: € 4- Children, teenagers (6 – 17 years): € 1.50 Children under 14 years, only if accompanied by an adult
Our reductions
Reduced admission is available for schoolchildren, students (not students of the University of the 3rd age U3L), persons doing federal voluntary service, unemployed persons, disabled persons, Frankfurt Pass/Culture Pass holders, holders of the Hessian Volunteer Card.
Special offers
Free Admission ICOM members, holders of MuseumsuferCard, MuseumsuferTickets, persons accompanying groups & school classes, students of Frankfurt universities (Goethe University, University of Music and Performing Arts, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences). “Free Fridays!” campaign Free admission on Fridays for school classes & groups of 10 people or more
Opening hours in detail
Tue-Fri 11am – 6pm Sat, Sun + public holidays 11am – 7pm
Holidays
Opening hours during the holidays: 11 am – 7 pm Christmas/New Year: The museum is closed on Dec. 24th, 25th, 31st and on Jan. 1st.
How to reach us
Museum of Communication Frankfurt Schaumainkai 53 (Museum embankment) 60596 Frankfurt on the Main
Transport connections From the city center: Subway lines U 1, U 2, U 3, U 8, stop “Schweizer Platz”.
From the main train station: Subway lines U 4, U 5, stop “Willy-Brandt-Platz” Tramline 16
The museum is largely barrier-free.
Exhibitions
Acceleration, networks, control and participation: We tell media history(s) based on four major phenomena and address different facets of communication in our temporary exhibitions. In this way, we span arcs from the past to the present, from our objects to you as a visitor.
Our interactive educational offers invite you to participate, reflect and network – individually, as a group, in a team – with us and our cooperation partners.
The information and networking forum on the digital transformation!
The digital transformation is already rapidly changing our lives. This makes it all the more important to understand and help shape the opportunities and consequences of digitalisation. With Leben & Lernen X.0, the Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt offers a forum for dialogue and the teaching of media skills with a focus on the topics of digital education, the future of democracy and the future of work.
The information and networking forum Leben & Lernen X.0 thinks about the present and future of communication with the museum’s visitors. Does Big Data threaten our privacy? What skills do we need in the age of strategically deployed fake news? Will artificial intelligences soon take over our work? What is digital education?
Diskutieren Sie mit uns den digitalen Wandel!
All Frankfurt residents are invited to discuss the effects of the digital transformation together with experts in workshops, citizens’ forums and with artistic perspectives, and to formulate their questions, demands and expectations. If you are interested in our events, write an email to lebenundlernen@mspt.de or visit our website: www.lebenx0.de
PotzBlitz! From the Curse of the Pharaoh to Hate Speech
August 11th 2022 to January 29th 2023
We all do it every day, or at least occasionally: swearing and cursing. Curses and expletives have existed in all the world’s languages since the beginning of time. The exhibition “Potz Blitz! From Pharaoh’s Curse to Hate Speech” explores this linguistic phenomenon in an entertaining way. Curator Rolf-Bernhard Essig, who conceived and curated the show, asks about the origins of curses and swearing in magic, history and religion.
The exhibition covers a wide range of topics, from the Bible to letters of abuse to internet trolls and hate speech in the present. A weighty motive for using curses and invective is the desire to break linguistic taboos. The phenomenon of warding off curses, for example by wearing amulets or by legal sanctions such as curse bans, also plays a role. The theme is present in very many areas of everyday human life, including politics, gender relations, driving or the football stadium. Historical objects, media stations and hands-on activities show that swearing and cursing are constant and living elements of all human communication.
Radio for Fans. Hessian Radio Stories
February 17th to September 4th 2022
Die ausgewählten Themenbereiche stehen beispielhaft für die Vielfalt des hr mit seinen sechs Hörfunkprogrammen im Wandel der Zeit: Im Fokus der Schau stehen das Deutsche Jazzfestival, Abendstudio und Funkkolleg und die Popwelle hr3, die 2022 50 Jahre alt wird. Ergänzt werden diese Rückblicke durch die Präsentation neuer, für die primär digitale Nutzung konzipierter Programminhalte wie „Deutschrap Ideal“ oder „Wunderwigwam“, den Wissenspodcast für Kinder, die sich auch im Veranstaltungsprogramm widerspiegeln.
Tauchen Sie ein in die 3D-Ausstellungswelt des “Gartens der Lüste” von Hieronymus Bosch
Das Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt hat gemeinsam mit der Frankfurter Agentur TimeLeapVR den virtuellen Ausstellungsraum „DelightfulGarden Online“ gelauncht. Über fünf Monate war es möglich, die VR Experience im Museum zu erleben und mehr über den Virtual Reality-Produktionsprozess in Form einer Ausstellung zu erfahren. Um das virtuelle Erlebnis auch nach dem Ende der Ausstellung erlebbar zu machen, haben die Entwickler:innen von TimeLeapVR und das Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt einen Mozilla-Hub-Raum gestaltet.
Wählen Sie einen Avatar (aus der Bildwelt des Gemäldes von Hieronymus Bosch) und bewegen Sie sich durch die wundersame Welt des Gartens der Lüste!
In hubs finden Sie viele Hintergrundinformationen zur Virtual Reality Erfahrung DelightfulGarden und können sich auch in der Welt von Hieronymus Bosch bewegen.
Bedienung mit einem Desktop-Computer oder Notebook
Mit den Tasten W A S D auf Ihrer Tastatur bewegen Sie sich in der 3D-Welt. Sie können bequem mit der linken Hand auf der Tastatur steuern. Der Mittelfinger bedient die Tasten W und S. Ringfinger liegt auf A und Zeigefinger auf D.
Mit W und S bewegen Sie sich vor und zurück. A und D schiebt Sie nach links oder rechts – der Blick bleibt dabei geradeaus nach vorn gerichtet.
Die Tasten Q und E drehen Sie um die eigene Achse – ohne sich dabei weiter nach vorne zu bewegen. Der Blick folgt der Drehung.
Q dreht Sie schrittweise (45°) nach links (im Gegen-Uhrzeigersinn). E dreht Sie nach rechts (im Uhrzeigersinn).
Sich umschauen und Ihre Blickrichtung ändern können Sie mit gedrückter (und gehaltener) linker Mouse-Taste. Mouse-Bewegung nach oben = Blick nach oben. Mouse-Bewegung nach rechts = Blick nach rechts…
Stehen Sie in der Nähe eines Videos, startet der Film und Sie hören den Ton. Bewegen Sie sich weg vom Video wird der Ton leiser und verschwindet.
Besucherstimmen aus der Ausstellung
„Wow! Was für ein tolles Erlebnis, für alle Sinne. Mehr davon!“
„Wir hätten gerne die Erdbeere auch gegessen. Hat großen Spaß gemacht!“
„Großartig, unvergesslich! Danke für die Hilfe. Ich glaube, ich werde süchtig danach. Mehr, mehr!“
Mediengeschichte|n neu erzählt!
Our permanent exhibition
Follow us on a journey through the past, present and future of communication: based on groundbreaking inventions, curious experiences and unusual fates, we span the arc from the cuneiform tablet to data glasses in the permanent exhibition on 2500 square meters.
44 thematic islands exemplify the development based on four central phenomena:
ACCELERATION – Our everyday life is characterized by stress and time pressure. We want to experience more, accomplish more, feel more in the time available. This compression accelerates us further. Digitalization and mobility contribute to this and shape the history of communication. Time has become the scarcest raw material in the world – how do we deal with this development?
NETWORKING – Global networking began with shipping, railroads and telegraphy. Today, we network with people, information and things – mobile and in real time. The boundary to the digital world has become fluid. Will increasing networking bring us closer together?
CONTROL – Almost everything is available online, and smart devices enable access anytime and anywhere. Digitization offers limitless possibilities, but in the process we leave our mark: our data is becoming a sought-after commodity for companies and states. How can we take advantage of this digital world without relinquishing control over our personal data?
PARTICIPATION – Newspapers, radio and television keep us informed about world events. Through the Internet and smartphones, we can now become an active part of digital communities: we share our opinions, experiences and news. Theoretically – because not everyone can or wants to participate. Global togetherness or digital exclusion?
(c) Anselm Buder/ MSPT
(c) Anselm Buder/ MSPT
(c) Anselm Buder/ MSPT
(c) Anselm Buder/ MSPT
(c) Anselm Buder/ MSPT
(c) Anselm Buder/ MSPT
There is in no fixed tour. You can surf through the permanent exhibition similar to the WWW and make your personal links. At many interactive stations you can learn playfully, leave us your opinion, check your user behavior or take away tips. In the art area, highlights of the collection and temporary exhibitions related to the phenomena of communication history await you.
Delightful Garden VR. A Virtual Reality Experience in the Garden of Delights by Hieronymus Bosch
People enjoying themselves, bizarre animal creatures, and unruly goings-on – Hieronymus Bosch’s famous painting The Garden of Delights is one of the most enigmatic and impressive paintings in the history of art, particularly because of its seemingly endless amount of fantastic detail.
From September, visitors inside the Museum of Communication will be able to view these details from a whole new perspective: In the Virtual Reality Experience DelightfulGardenVR visitors inside can literally step through the screen into Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Delights while donning a VR headset and experience an exciting adventure about sin and guilt. However, the virtual reality exhibition not only enables a special, interactive art experience, but also provides insights into TimeLeapVR’s production process: from the authentic transfer of the artistic style and the reproduction of the image content to the animation of the garden’s inhabitants. In the process, visitors inside are invited to reflect on the experience of real and virtual worlds.
DelightfulGardenVR. A Virtual Reality Experience in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Delights is an exhibition of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication and is supported by the Dr. Marschner Foundation, the Hessian Cultural Foundation and “experimente# digital – a cultural initiative of the Aventis Foundation.
Accompanying program
Back to Future. Visions of technologies between fiction and reality
November 2020 to 24. October 2021
They dream of flying cars, cities in space and living worlds under water. They predict videophones in their vest pockets and devise time machines to travel into the future. At the end of the 19th century and in the course of the 20th century, science fiction authors, inventors and technology enthusiasts were singing a dazzling and fascinating tune about the future, which was soon replaced by a period of critical scrutiny of technology.
(c) Sven Moschitz / MSPT
(c) Sven Moschitz / MSPT
(c) Sven Moschitz / MSPT
(c) Sven Moschitz / MSPT
(c) Sven Moschitz / MSPT
(c) Sven Moschitz / MSPT
The exhibition “Back to future” is a pictorial journey to the technical visions of yesterday’s future that creative masterminds:inside came up with. In illustrations and novels, on postcards and in films, they designed images in which the hopes, longings, fears and objections of the respective time are expressed. They are fantastic images and very concrete ideas – some visions have already become self-evident everyday life, others have missed the mark in an entertaining way.
The exhibition presents both euphoric and critical visions of technology for communication and mobility, and tells the story of the social breeding ground on which they were born. Perhaps a look at these historical futures will help us better understand the fears and hopes we project into our future today. After all, the defining future technologies of our present – robots, artificial intelligence, and self-driving cars – we discover in part in visionary designs of days gone by.
Opening video tour
Missed the live stream? Re-watch the exhibition opening here and go on an exciting curated tour of the exhibition
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Expotizer for the exhibition
The Expotizer provides exciting insights into the exhibition online. You can access the offering conveniently from your smartphone, tablet or desktop computer.
Curious Communication. Unusual objects and stories from the collection
30. september to 20. february 2022
A phone shaped like a showerhead, a stamp that can be played with a record player, a beer mat sent as a postcard, a denim jacket that can be used to control a smartphone – when people want to convey messages, they get creative.
Curious objects that surprise with an unusual use, have an extraordinary history or a special design are part of the collection of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication. Throughout the centuries, from the earliest times to the digital present, technicians, inventors, and amateurs have developed things and ways to deliver messages.
The exhibition is dedicated to these particular objects, and in doing so, also explores the question of how, why, and for whom museums collect.
