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Sad to hear.

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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-base

Berlin is an open air museum for typography
Probably the money gambled away on slop AI startups in a single week could sustain thousands of museums like this for decades
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Oh no! We were just there a couple of months ago. I hope they find a good home for their collection.
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?
As for why they are closing:

> 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/

It's sad. I did not know this exists, where do people find locations like this?
Why do they need a museum dedicated to back stabbing?
Good that I saw this post on its last day of opening. Gonna pay a visit today. Typography is fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
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.