5.000 Jahre Mediengeschichte

In the organizer's words:

On our guided tour through the permanent exhibition "Signs - Books - Networks: From cuneiform to binary code" at the German Museum of Books and Writing, you will follow in the footsteps of 5,000 years of media history.

Whether notched wood, tattoo or anatomical textbook, whether neon sign or camouflage writing, gravestone, novel or love letter: for more than 5,000 years, people have been recording information with the help of written signs. The permanent exhibition at the German Museum of Books and Writing at the German National Library tells a brief history of humanity's media along the lines of these three media innovations.

The exhibition invites visitors to explore early forms of communication, memory techniques and writing systems, historical and modern book forms and "reading worlds". It reports on cases of censorship, presents the masterpieces of modern book art and focuses on the rapid development of media in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Information and contact

Meeting point: Museum foyer, German Book and Writing Museum of the
German National Library in Leipzig

Costs: Free admission

Duration: approx. 1 hour

Registration: No registration required.

Checkroom information: Please leave your coats, jackets and umbrellas at the checkroom. You will need one or two euro coins to lock bags and rucksacks in the lockers.

Accessibility: The tour is barrier-free.

Contact: dbsm-info@dnb.de or phone +49 341 2271-324