Communication Museum Berlin
You’re standing in the former Reichspost building that now houses the Museum für Kommunikation Berlin, one of the sites of the Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation. The museum’s story begins in 1872, when Heinrich von Stephan—then Generalpostmeister of the German Reich—founded the Reichspostmuseum, aiming to illustrate the cultural history of transport and communication “from the peoples of antiquity” to the modern era. The building itself was constructed on Leipziger Straße between 1871 and 1874 as the Generalpostamt, later becoming the Reichspostamt and, from 1919, the Reichspostministerium. The architect of the Generalpostamt was Carl Schwatlo. Between 1893 and 1897, an extension was added under plans by Ernst Hake, with construction leadership by Heinrich Techow and Franz Ahrens, and the Reichspostmuseum moved into that expanded setting. …
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