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Leipzig: Wednesday 28 May 2025

The reading rooms of the German National Library in Leipzig will open at 13:00 on Wednesday 28 May due to a staff assembly. The exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing will open from 10:00 to 18:00.

Frankfurt: Thursday 5 June 2025

The reading rooms of the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main will open at 13:00 on Thursday, 5 June due to a staff assembly. The exhibitions of the German Exile Archive 1933–1945 will be open from 9:00 to 21:30.

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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