Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt
I ducked into the Museum für Kommunikation while in Frankfurt last month. Click any image for a larger version in a new window.
Outside the entrance, I was greeted by this valiant electronic knight on a bronze horse:
In the vestibule were calmly grazing these telephone sheep, mostly white...
...but there's always the black sheep of the family:
Detail of handset sheep's foot:
There was an exhibit of the history of Deutsche Post, complete with a perfectly restored very early model VW Beetle in yellow Deutsche Bundespost livery, and an informational placard stating (in German I was able to decipher without help given the subject matter) that the DBP used only German vehicles until privatisation, which explains why they use so many Renault Kangoos now. I didn't take pictures of that exhibit, because let's face it, a VW Beetle is pretty much a VW Beetle. Nifty old television sets, though, one does not see every day. Like this 1937 Telefunken, which produces a horizontally reversed image on its hidden picture tube, which is then bounced off a mirror for right-way-round viewing by the rapt audience:
And this snazzy set from 1959 or so practically has tailfins! It's sort of '57 Chevrolet cum '58 Seeburg jukebox cum Fender Stratocaster styling meets precision German woodwork:
Beyond the fernsehensatz (television set) area was a big display of audio equipment. This 1958 Braun radio-turntable has especially clean styling:
And after the audio-radio section came the computers. It was a little bit strange for me to see this trapezoidal-headed feller as a museum piece...
...and it was a hell of a lot strange for me to see this as a museum piece, given I still have the "Guided Tour" cassette tapes that came with mine:
Outside the entrance, I was greeted by this valiant electronic knight on a bronze horse:
In the vestibule were calmly grazing these telephone sheep, mostly white...
...but there's always the black sheep of the family:
Detail of handset sheep's foot:
There was an exhibit of the history of Deutsche Post, complete with a perfectly restored very early model VW Beetle in yellow Deutsche Bundespost livery, and an informational placard stating (in German I was able to decipher without help given the subject matter) that the DBP used only German vehicles until privatisation, which explains why they use so many Renault Kangoos now. I didn't take pictures of that exhibit, because let's face it, a VW Beetle is pretty much a VW Beetle. Nifty old television sets, though, one does not see every day. Like this 1937 Telefunken, which produces a horizontally reversed image on its hidden picture tube, which is then bounced off a mirror for right-way-round viewing by the rapt audience:
And this snazzy set from 1959 or so practically has tailfins! It's sort of '57 Chevrolet cum '58 Seeburg jukebox cum Fender Stratocaster styling meets precision German woodwork:
Beyond the fernsehensatz (television set) area was a big display of audio equipment. This 1958 Braun radio-turntable has especially clean styling:
And after the audio-radio section came the computers. It was a little bit strange for me to see this trapezoidal-headed feller as a museum piece...
...and it was a hell of a lot strange for me to see this as a museum piece, given I still have the "Guided Tour" cassette tapes that came with mine:
