Photo: Deutsches Museum Muenchen | Christian Illing
Communication Information Media
Image Script Codes – Making communication work
From letterpress printing to cryptology: for thousands of years, we have found ways to exchange information and store knowledge. See and experience this first hand – and even try things out yourself!
Image Script Codes Exhibition – overview
The exhibition is divided into the thematic areas of Image, Print, Writing and Cryptology. From the abundance of images, including RAF wanted posters, Otl Aicher’s 1972 Olympic posters and a gallery featuring Vincent van Gogh’s famous sunflower paintings, the exhibition moves on to image printing and letterpress printing. Here, the “Gutenberg Galaxy” takes centre stage. Opposite is the large printing press hall with impressive machines such as the high-speed press and the rotary printing press. Writing systems, which play a key role in printing technology, are covered in the next section of the exhibition. The focus is on the role of writing systems as a store of knowledge and cultural mediator across temporal and spatial boundaries. Cryptology then explores secret communication, providing insights into encryption and deciphering from antiquity to the digital age.
When will this event take place?
Discover which activities are taking place by checking our daily programme, which is published at around 9.20 each day. Our programme changes daily and includes guided tours, demonstrations, science shows and hands-on activities for individual visitors and small groups of up to five people. All programme events are held in German. They begin either directly where the activity is set to take place or at a guided-tour meeting point in the relevant exhibition.
Facts and Figures
- Location: Level 2
- Exhibition space: 1060 m2
- Exhibits and models: approx. 300
- Demonstrations and interactives: 32
- Dioramas: 1
- Media stations: 25
View Inside the Image Script Codes Exhibition
Do you have technical questions?
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Dr. Carola Dahlke
Curator
Computer Science and Cryptology DepartmentDr. Sonja Neumann
Curator
Department of photo and film technology, writing and printing technology, paper technology and office technologyDeutsches Museum
80306 MunichTelephone +49 89 2179 350
Fax +49 89 2179 99350
Email s.neumann@deutsches-museum.de
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Cornelia Schubert
Assistance to department heads, main department heads and curators
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Susanne Schmölz
Assistance to department heads, main department heads and curators
