Museum für Kommunikation Berlin

Address

Museum für Kommunikation Berlin
Leipziger Straße 16
10117 Berlin

www.mfk-berlin.de

Karte

How to get here

U2 Mohrenstraße,
U6 Stadtmitte

Informations about accessibility

Short Facts

Founded: 1872 as Reich Postal Museum by Postmaster General Heinrich von Stephan
Opened: 1898 in the prestige Neo-Baroque building
Re-opened: 2000 as Museum für Kommunikation
Exhibition space: 4630 m²
What to see: objects from the history of human communication: postal history, writing culture, telecommunications technology, radio, television, computer
Definitely don’t miss: the Blue Mauritius, telephone by Philipp Reis in the Schatzkammer (treasure chamber)

EVENTS AT THIS LOCATION

6:00 PM-3:00 AM

As though there were no tomorrow

Time travel is still supposed to be stressful, even nowadays? Not with us! Here we have comfortable deckchairs, fine burgers and the coolest cocktails.

6:00 PM-10:00 PM

And off they go!

Take your seat at the children’s post office counter. Postmark letters with a huge hammer stamp. Count the money for postage stamps. Enter the charges on a list with ink and pen.

6:00 PM-10:00 PM

Captain Future make-up station

Are you Super Woman, R2D2 or a spaceman with glitter flashes? Do magic paints give you secret magic powers? Or will you be a beautiful animal with big saucer eyes?

6:00 PM-10:00 PM

Build yourself a time machine

Are you curious about how it was in 1872 when the museum opened? Build a fantastic machine to travel through time.

6:30 PM-12:30 AM

The Time Machine

In our legendary Summer cinema we present ‘The Time Machine’ (1960, in German) in the cine film version and a lot of other trips in time in twenty-minute Super 8 format.

6:30 PM-7:00 PM,
7:30 PM-8:00 PM,
8:30 PM-9:00 PM

Im Rad der Geschichte

Fachliteratur für Postbeamte sowie Bücher aus dem 16. Jahrhundert: Kommen Sie mit auf eine kleine besondere Zeitreise zu den Anfängen einer altehrwürdigen Bibliothek.

6:30 PM-12:30 AM

150 Jahre Sammeln und Kommunizieren

Anlässlich des 150-jährigen Jubiläums des Museums für Kommunikation zeigen wir die ältesten Objekte unserer Sammlung und erzählen ihre faszinierenden Geschichten.

7:00 PM-7:30 PM,
9:00 PM-9:30 PM,
11:00 PM-11:30 PM

Timelessly surreal magic

The illusionist, artist and trick developer Tobias Dostal fascinates his audiences with unrivalled card manipulations. Maybe he’ll even share his skills with you... Let yourself be enchanted!

8:00 PM-8:20 PM,
9:00 PM-9:20 PM,
10:00 PM-10:20 PM

Common Objects

Artists Selena Savic and Gordan Savičić invite you to join a performative guided tour with specially produced antenna-like objects in the temporary exhibition “Curious Communication”.

8:00 PM-8:30 PM,
10:00 PM-10:30 PM,
12:00 AM-12:30 AM

Zurück durch die Zukunft

Angeschnallt und den Fluxkompensator angeworfen. Mit Martina McFly und Doc Braun geht es in Zeitreisegeschwindigkeit (140 km/h) durch die Ausstellung „Back to Future“.

9:30 PM-12:00 AM

Portrait comic postcards to take away

Comic artists of the artists’ collective Goldene Discofaust will draw your portrait as a time traveller in a comic form on weird and wonderful oversized postcards.

9:30 PM-10:00 PM,
10:30 PM-11:00 PM,
11:30 PM-12:00 AM

150 years of collecting and communicating

For the 150th anniversary of Museum for Communication, we are showing exclusive early objects of this collection which are still fascinating today and tell their stories.

12:00 AM-12:30 AM

Chuckamuck live!

The Berlin band Chuckamuck plays music between Indie, Post Punk and Garage Rock with some poetic Country influences.

12:00 AM-3:00 AM

Time travel party

At the Long Night closing party you can dance to super-funky beats by Marisa Akeny “femdelic” and Boogie Dan. The Berlin garage rock band Chuckamuck will give the opening concert.

Gallery

Express-Führung im Festsaal zur Langen Nacht

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