Museum fur Kommunikation
Family ticket (2 adults up to 4 children) EUR 20 · Adults EUR 10 · Reduced admission EUR 8
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Museum für Kommunikation in Nuremberg traces human communication from learning language to social media. It stands at Lessingstraße 6 beside the DB Museum.
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What's on here
Why go
- The first German telephone in the communication collection.
- The Caesar cipher disk, Enigma and digital encryption, alongside questions about privacy and security.
Plan your visit
Prices
Family ticket (2 adults up to 4 children)EUR 20
AdultsEUR 10
Reduced admissionEUR 8
Children, youths (6 – 17 years)EUR 6
Children & youths (6 to 17 years)EUR 13
Family ticketEUR 60
From the venue's website · checked 28 Oct 2026
Opening hours
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MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
Wednesday09:00 – 17:00
Thursday09:00 – 17:00
Friday09:00 – 17:00
Saturday10:00 – 18:00
Sunday10:00 – 18:00
Don't miss
- Historic telephone exchangesSee the equipment working and hear how it connects callers during maintenance demonstrations.Telephone exchange displaysDuring maintenance demonstrations
- Pneumatic postSend a message through the pneumatic post system.Writing room
- Television studioFilm yourself presenting a programme.Image gallery
- Writing workshopWrite with a quill or pencil.Writing room
- Media literacy testTry the media literacy test among the interactive digital communication exhibits.Network section
Know before you go
- Closed on 31 December, 1 January and 1 May.
What's inside
- Four permanent exhibition rooms explore communication through sound, images, writing and the internet.
- The sound room covers speech, animal communication, signal instruments and telephones.
- Films in the image room explore facial expression, gestures, fashion, signs, photography and television.
- The writing room displays scripts from early civilizations and shows how Gutenberg’s printing invention shaped media through the daily newspaper.
- The network section explores how people use, share and create content online, with interactive media stations and a media literacy test.
With kids
- Make a short animated film by inventing a story, drawing pictures and filming them frame by frame.
- Try visual experiments such as a thaumatrope, spinning top or flipbook in the writing workshop.
- Children aged 5 to 14 can have a museum birthday party with activities including designing stamps, cracking codes and building a VR headset.
- The museum runs events about data protection and children’s media skills.
Tips for your visit
- For a museum birthday party, bring your own food and drinks; the museum decorates a room and supplies plates, cups and dishwasher access.
- Use the digital museum to browse collection databases and explore Sennedjem’s tomb online from home.
- Alongside tours and workshops, the museum offers discussions with experts.
- The museum runs excursions through Knoblauchsland in a historic mail coach built in 1939.
- The museum has changing exhibitions and educational activities alongside its permanent exhibition.
Tours and audio guides
- Museum overview tour
- Communication history through objects and stories, from direct exchange to digital networks Visitors take part.
- Mailbox tour
- Mailbox history and unusual examples The tour considers mailboxes alongside messaging apps and email.
- Post history tour with Rainer Eck
- History of the post in Nuremberg Eck formerly worked for Bundespost and Telekom.
- Historic mail-coach excursion
- Mail coach built in 1939 The coach travels through Knoblauchsland, an area known for vegetable growing and long-established farming traditions.
Interesting facts5
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400 objects
Around 400 objects illustrate how communication works.
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Each room’s architecture is matched to its exhibition subject.
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A miniature packing station demonstrates the transport of writing, goods and parcels.
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The escape room was created with Middle Franconia’s police prevention unit and Nuremberg’s city youth office.
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The museum’s origins lie in the period when Bavaria maintained its own postal and railway services after German unification.
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History
- 1899A railway history exhibition opened in Nuremberg, marking the institution’s beginning.
- 1902The exhibition added a department on Bavarian post and telegraphy, the seed of today’s communication museum.
- 1914–1925Construction began at the current Lessingstraße site in 1914. The museum moved into the completed building in 1925.
- Second World WarThe building closed during the war, and important exhibits were lost.
- 1955The former Postal Museum reopened with a modest exhibition.
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- 1988–1991The building underwent extensive renovation and expansion.
- 2000The museum adopted its current name.
- 2013The network section was redesigned to follow the rooms on sound, images and writing.
Sources: Museum of Communication (Nuremberg) - Wikipedia · Museum für Kommunikation Nürnberg – Kommunikati… · Kindergeburtstag im Museum – Museum für Kommuni… · Über uns – Museum für Kommunikation Nürnberg · Museum für Kommunikation Nürnberg - Wikipedia · Musée de la communication de Nuremberg - Wikipe… · checked 4 Oct 2026
Where
Lessingstr. 6, Nuremberg Middle Franconia Franconia Bavaria
- Website
- mfk-nuernberg.de/
- Phone
- +16502530000
Questions and answers
How much does Museum für Kommunikation cost?
Adult admission is €60.
Can I try the exhibits at Museum für Kommunikation?
Yes. Visitors can use interactive stations.
What is the Museum für Kommunikation building like?
It has monumental sandstone architecture in the early 20th-century Nuremberg tradition.
Who looks after the historic telephone exchanges at Museum für Kommunikation?
Volunteers, many of them former telecommunications technicians, maintain them.
Are the hands-on activities at Museum für Kommunikation only for children?
No. The museum offers hands-on activities for visitors of all ages.
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