A tour through the eventful history of the world's oldest postal museum
Visitors often ask this question: What used to be in the building that now houses the Museum of Communication Berlin? The answer is: It was designed and built to be a museum!
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Historische Ansicht des Museums für Kommunikation Berlin
The imposing building on Leipziger Straße is the oldest postal museum in the world. In 2023, the building celebrated its 125th anniversary.
The architectural tour takes you on a journey through the eventful history of the world’s oldest postal museum—today’s Museum for Communication Berlin.
The building is a magnificent Wilhelminian-style structure—explicitly designed and built as a museum. The tour focuses on how the German Empire built itself a postal palace, thereby carving its claim to power in stone.
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