Our typewriters show the development of this technique from 1888(Chicago/U.S.A.) until the present time. The last actual typewriter made in the GDR was the “ERIKA”.

We display as well special makes of typewriters for handicapped , the „Braille-Typewriter“ and different typewriters for children as well as the legendary „Mignon“. Interested visitors have the opportunity to see at different models the different strokes of writing.

In out permanent exhibition you can not only take a look at the socalled “Heidelberger Tiegel“ (D2-Printing machine),which was manufactured in about 400000 pieces but also the pre-runner of an offset-printing machine of the type „Automatik“, which was developed by a company in Berlin at the beginning of the 20th century and the similar device named „PHOENIX A“.

Further more there is displayed a rich amount of particular accessories ,led letters and tools for the use of typesetters,small printing machines and copying devices(for example the „Ormig“).

Our calculator technology reaches from mechanical, electrical- and electronic calculating machines, over punch card systems up to parts of a mainframe computer named „EDVA EC1040”.Of some interest is the removed mechanism of a “WPS EC 5566M”,because of the comparison to the size of hard disk drives of our days.

You will find home computers of Commodore, Atari, Sinclair ZX81, AC1, Z1013 and the first generation of portable PC´s including peripheral equipment in a permanent exhibition. Further on we display some curious pocket calculators.