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Leipzig: Monday 12.05.2025

The Museum Reading Room in Leipzig will not open until 16:00 on Monday 12.05.2025, due to maintenance work.

Leipzig: Thursday 15.05.2025

The German National Library in Leipzig will not open until 16:00 on Thursday 16.05.2025 due to maintenance work.
The Museum Reading Room and the exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing will be open.

KlingKlang – sounds from media history

Whether the scratching of a quill on parchment or the sound of a 3D printer, a phonograph, a cylinder printing press, a Gameboy or the chirping of an inkjet printer. KlingKlang ringed in the year 2021 with a whole array of sounds from media history. Every day in January, there was an acoustic surprise from 5,000 years of media history.

The German Museum of Books and Writing and the German Music Archive give the DNB’s media history collection a voice by playing many of its sounds. The items that usually stand silent in the exhibitions and stacks will be making themselves heard outside the building: “Silent Night” will be followed by the clatter of the printing machines and the whispering of media.

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Kling Klang 1

Last changes: 19.02.2021

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