Following the closure of the Buchstabenmuseum, our FINAL SALE will take place on two Saturdays.
Take advantage of this opportunity to purchase selected items (furniture, tools, office supplies, typography, household goods, garden items and much more!) at special discounted prices.

Admission is only possible with a free slot ticket booked in advance.

Please secure your ticket in good time to guarantee your visit.
Tickets are available at pretix.eu/buchstabenmuseum

Dates
Sat 15 November 2025 (1 pm to 6 pm)
Sat 22 November 2025 (1 pm to 6 pm)

Address
Buchstabenmuseum
Stadtbahnbogen 424, 10557 Berlin

We look forward to seeing you there!

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The Buchstabenmuseum Berlin is closed!

Our collection is an extraordinary cultural asset and unique worldwide!
Over 100 selected exhibits from the collection were digitised in 2024 as part of a funding programme and have since become part of Berlin’s official cultural heritage.
We will continue to expand, maintain and preserve our extensive collection.

We are currently working on optimising our collection, but we will not break it up or sell it off.
Our long-term aim is to secure the collection in Berlin and make it accessible to the public again.

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For this we need support:
>> betterplace

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On Sat 14 June 2025 from 3 to 9 pm we want to celebrate our birthday and toast with you!
You and all your friends and family are cordially invited.

20 years is a very long time to look back on.
That’s why we’ve put together a colourful brochure that we’ll be presenting on Saturday.

In addition, Sabrina Hauck (student at TU Berlin / architect at gkks) will give a talk on the use,
vacancy and potential of Berlin’s S-Bahn arches at 18:00.

Horten, Quelle, Hertie, Kaufhof and Karstadt – corporate names that are disappearing from German city centres. Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof is currently struggling with closure in instalments. With the creeping loss of the corporations, the distinctive lettering of the department stores’ chains is also being lost.
“FINAL SALE” tells the typographic and urban-historical stories of the letters and shows the former significance of the department stores and department stores with their architecture.
We invite you to discover the typographic department stores’ icons and to buy selected items in the exhibition: “Final Sale – from department stores’ to museum” in the Buchstabenmuseum in the Stadtbahnbögen in the Hansaviertel.

Preservation and documentation of letters
The Buchstabenmuseum is the first museum in the world to collect letterforms from public spaces and display them as part of urban history. We preserve and document three-dimensional letters and signage, and their history, as well as providing information about their origins and construction. Our collection has captured the imagination of visitors from all around the world for over 10 years. Hundreds of letters have been saved from being battered by the elements or ending up on the scrap heap. A selection of what we offer can be found under » COLLECTION

The Buchstabenmuseum has a new location!
For our new exhibition we need urgently your help.

Become a member of the club and actively support our museum.
We are always in need of help with the rescue of historic lettering, looking after our international guests or even with the classic work of the association.
Just write to us!
bindabei@buchstabenmuseum.de