Visitors ask this question again and again: What used to be in the building of the Berlin Museum of Communication? The answer is: It was planned and built as a museum! The imposing building on Leipziger Strasse is the oldest postal museum in the world. In 2023, the building celebrated its 125th birthday.
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Museum für Kommunikation
The architectural tour takes you on a journey through the eventful history of the oldest postal museum in the world - today's Berlin Museum of Communication.
The building is a magnificent Wilhelminian building - explicitly designed and built as a museum. The focus of the tour is how the German Empire built a postal palace and thus carved its claim to power in stone.
(TOUR IN GERMAN)
