Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt
Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt | |
The Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt in 2010 | |
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| Established | 1958/1990 |
| Location | Schaumainkai 53, Museumsufer, Frankfurt, Germany |
| Coordinates | 50°06′16″N 8°40′33″E / 50.10445°N 8.67579°E |
| Type | Museum |
| Visitors | 112,625 (2018) |
| Architect | Günter Behnisch |
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The Museum für Kommunikation (MfK) is a museum of the history of communication in Frankfurt, Germany. It opened on 31 January 1958 under the name Bundespostmuseum (National Postal Museum) and is on Frankfurt's Museumsufer (Museum Riverbank).
The museum was owned by Deutsche Bundespost until 1994. The present building, a modern and transparent glass structure, opened in 1990 and was designed by architect Günter Behnisch. Following the opening of the new building, the museum acquired its present name, and it is now managed by the Museum Trust for Post and Telecommunications, which was established in 1995 during the federal postal reforms that followed re-unification. The museum has two sister institutions: the Museum of Communication, Nuremberg, Germany, and the Museum für Kommunikation Berlin.