Berlin is a modern typography hub, the influence Spiekermann has in the DACH region and maybe even beyond is hard to overestimate.
Apart from that if you come to Berlin and you are the kind of person that would have liked the Buchstabenmuseum you should try to get an opportunity to visit the crashed space station.
This is a bummer - headed to Berlin for the first time in a few weeks and hoped to visit. Any recommendations for similarly geek-oriented side trips in Berlin?
> Fixed costs and a lack of financial support are forcing us to take this step. In addition, the general cultural situation in Berlin is very precarious. It was a very difficult decision for us.
Thank you for posting this! I just spent a very enjoyable hour there and I’m sad others won’t be able to do the same in future.
They appear to work with many institutions in a consultancy capacity so I hope that this will still continue in future even though the museum itself has to close.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 36.2 ms ] threadBerlin is a modern typography hub, the influence Spiekermann has in the DACH region and maybe even beyond is hard to overestimate.
Apart from that if you come to Berlin and you are the kind of person that would have liked the Buchstabenmuseum you should try to get an opportunity to visit the crashed space station.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-base
It opened in 2016.
This post is likely the most attention it has ever received.
https://www.neonmuzeum.org/english
> Fixed costs and a lack of financial support are forcing us to take this step. In addition, the general cultural situation in Berlin is very precarious. It was a very difficult decision for us.
Via Deepl, original here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DLuAW5DIANV/
They appear to work with many institutions in a consultancy capacity so I hope that this will still continue in future even though the museum itself has to close.