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Thursday, 19 June 2025

Thursday, 19 June 2025: The German National Library in Frankfurt am Main will be closed.

Leipzig: Friday 20 June 2025

The Museum Reading Room at the German National Library in Leipzig will close due to an event at 17:30. The exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing will be open until 18:00.

A time journey through the permanent exhibition of the German Museum of Books and Writing

Guided tour

Photo of a young woman wearing glasses and gazing at a book (on Einstein’s theory of relativity) with a look of surprise on her face DNB, Collection Günter-Karl Bose

begin 12.11.2023, 15:00

end 12.11.2023, 15:30

location Virtual

Follow the trail left by 5,000 years of media history.
Tally sticks, tattoos, anatomy textbooks, neon signs, disguised publications, gravestones, novels or love letters: for more than 5,000 years people have been recording information using written signs. The permanent exhibition of the German Museum of Books and Writing provides a brief history of human media based on the three media innovations.

The complete programme

Information and contact

The event will be held in German.

Access: https://meet.goto.com/693628373

Costs: Free admission

Duration: 30 minutes

Contact: dbsm-info@dnb.de

Last changes: 10.10.2023

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