Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt

Name

Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt

Legal name

Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation

Website

https://mfk-frankfurt.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cultural Museum Services

NAICS

Museums (712110)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Science & Technology Museums (THAJADAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Specialty Museums (e.g., Maritime, Aviation, Sports, Music, Film) (THAJADAF), Museums & Heritage Sites (History, Science, Specialty) (BPAGAHAA), Museum, Zoo & Attraction Gift Shops (CRALAJAG)

Keywords

• Communication history museum
• Cultural education programs
• Interactive exhibitions
• Digital museum platform
• Collection artifacts

Headquarters

HQ city

Frankfurt am Main

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Ticket Sales and Admissions: Revenue from museum entrance fees, guided tours, and special exhibitions. Tickets are sold through GetYourGuide as well as at the door.
2. Workshop and Event Fees: Revenue from children's workshops (Ferienwerkstatt, Kinderwerkstatt), afterwork workshops, and special programs. Fees range from 4-40 EUR per participant.
3. Institutional Funding: The museum is supported by Deutsche Post and Deutsche Telekom and operated by Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation.
4. Event Rental and Venue Hire: The museum offers event and venue rental services (Event und Vermietung) for private and corporate events.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt operates a physical and digital museum dedicated to the history, present, and future of communication, anchored by the permanent exhibition "Mediengeschichte(n) neu erzählt!" spanning from ancient cuneiform to artificial intelligence. It complements exhibitions with rotating special shows, hands-on children's workshops, guided tours including depot tours, structured educational programs for schools and teachers, AI literacy workshops for seniors, and event/venue rental services. It also maintains a digital museum platform with the Expotizer digital exhibition guide, an online collection database, and an on-site amateur radio station.

Product overview

Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt operates as a physical and digital museum dedicated to the history, present, and future of communication. Its core offering is the permanent exhibition 'Mediengeschichte(n) neu erzählt!' (Media History Newly Told) spanning from ancient cuneiform writing to artificial intelligence. The museum complements its physical exhibitions with digital products including the Digitales Museum für Kommunikation platform (featuring Expotizer digital exhibits and a Web-App for viewing digitized collection objects) and the Onlinesammlung online collection database. Educational offerings include the Kinderwerkstatt hands-on workshop, guided tours, and Bildung & Vermittlung programs for schools, families, and adults. The museum also hosts rotating special exhibitions and themed events, with 2026 designated as the AI Theme Year (KI Themenjahr) featuring AI Islands in the permanent exhibition and the KI Club for Best Ager workshop series.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Digitales Museum für Kommunikation: Digital museum platform providing online access to digital collections and exhibitions
• Onlinesammlung

Products and services

• Permanent Exhibition "Mediengeschichte(n) neu erzählt!" (Dauerausstellung) The museum's flagship permanent exhibition telling the story of human communication from cuneiform writing and the Code of Hammurabi through postal carriages, telegraphy, historic telephones, social media, and artificial intelligence, with new AI Islands added since December 3, 2025.
• Digitales Museum für Kommunikation (Digital Museum Platform) An online digital museum platform offering remote access to digital exhibits, the Expotizer digital exhibition guide, a Web-App for viewing digitized collection objects, and various online exhibitions for visitors who cannot attend in person.
• Onlinesammlung (Online Collection Database) Searchable online database providing digital access to the Museumsstiftung's unique collection of communication artifacts, allowing users to explore holdings remotely.
• Kinderwerkstatt (Children's Workshop) Hands-on creative workshop program for children from age 4 and families, offered on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays with special holiday editions, designed to strengthen curiosity and self-learning through exhibit exploration and craft projects.
• Guided Tours and Events (Führungen und Veranstaltungen) Public and themed guided tours of exhibitions and the collection depot, plus special events and themed year programs such as the 2026 AI Theme Year (KI Themenjahr 2026).
• Bildung & Vermittlung (Education Programs) Structured educational programming for kindergarten and primary school groups, schools and youth groups, adults, teachers and multiplicators, and barrier-free audiences, aligned with curriculum standards and including professional development for educators.
• Children's Birthday Parties (Kindergeburtstage) Birthday party packages hosted at the museum for children and families, combining themed workshops with museum access as a bookable standalone experience.
• Event and Venue Rental (Event und Vermietung) Rental of the museum's distinctive riverside venue on Schaumainkai for private and corporate events, providing a culturally significant setting for hosting occasions.
• Special Exhibition: 20+1 – Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence Special exhibition opening May 28, 2026 that presents multiple perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and examines the intersection of AI with human communication.
• Special Exhibition: 100 Jahre unterwegs telefonieren (100 Years of Mobile Telephony) Special pop-up exhibition running January 14 to May 31, 2026 marking a century of telephoning while on the move.
• Special Exhibition: Die Nazis waren ja nicht einfach weg Special exhibition running January 30 to July 26, 2026 examining the post-1945 legacy of the Nazi period in Germany.
• Special Exhibition: Design-Ikonen der Mediengeschichte Special exhibition running July 1 to December 31, 2026 showcasing design icons from media history.
• Depot Tours Heusenstamm (Collection Depot Tours) Off-site guided tours of the museum's collection depot at Philipp-Reis-Straße 4-8 in Heusenstamm, approximately 90 minutes in duration, featuring historic telephone switchboards and other communication artifacts not currently on display.
• KI Club for Best Ager A four-part workshop series for older adults covering Artificial Intelligence topics including practical writing and organization assistance, creative image and photo applications, and safe use of AI tools, priced at 8 EUR plus museum entrance per session.
• Afterwork Workshop Evening workshop program for adults combining creative making with museum access, priced at 30 EUR per person including materials, a drink, and museum entrance.

Quantifiable outcome

• Served 12 cultural institutions in the Stadturlaub am Museumsufer summer holiday program

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation (MSPT)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe parent foundation operating all three Museums für Kommunikation (Berlin, Frankfurt, Nürnberg) and the Archiv für Philatelie in Bonn. The foundation manages the collections, operations, and strategic direction of all member museums.
• Deutsche PostcoreOthersOne of two main corporate sponsors of the museum foundation. Provides funding and institutional support for the Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation.
• Deutsche TelekomcoreOthersOne of two main corporate sponsors of the museum foundation. Provides funding and institutional support for the Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation.
• Museumsufer (Frankfurt Cultural Institutions)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerA consortium of 12 Frankfurter cultural institutions collaborating on the 'Stadturlaub am Museumsufer' summer holiday program for children ages 8-12. The museum participates as one of the venues visited during the week-long program.

Scale indicators2 records

Broad incumbents

• Deutsches Museum (Munich): Germany's largest science and technology museum. Operates in the same science/technology museum category as Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt's communication/AI exhibits, but with a much broader subject footprint (engineering, physics, etc.) and substantially larger scale.
• Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg: Hamburg-based museum of applied arts and design with historical communication/media collections (typography, printing). Overlaps with the Frankfurt museum's communication-and-design narrative and serves a comparable German urban cultural audience.

Regional players

• Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung Frankfurt: Frankfurt-based sculpture museum and Museumsufer partner. Comparable as a Museumsufer consortium member sharing district-level marketing and joint programming, though with a fundamentally different (art) subject focus.
• Senckenberg Nature Museum Frankfurt: Frankfurt-based Museumsufer consortium member and the city's other flagship museum. Comparable as a Frankfurt cultural institution participating in Museumsufer collaborative programming, though focused on natural history rather than communication/technology.
• Städel Museum Frankfurt: Frankfurt-based art museum and Museumsufer member. Shares the same Museumsufer cultural district, collaborative programs, and visitor demographics — useful peer for benchmarking Frankfurt museum operations and ticketing dynamics.

Direct peers

• Museum für Kommunikation Berlin: Sister museum under the same Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation foundation. Operates with the same mission (communication history), shared collection, and dual sponsorship from Deutsche Post and Deutsche Telekom — making it the closest possible peer for the Frankfurt location.
• Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin: Berlin-based technology museum covering communication technology (among other tech domains). Direct peer in subject matter (communication history, telegraphy, telephony) and operates in the same German museum ecosystem as Museum für Kommunikation.
• Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum: Paderborn-based museum dedicated to the history of information technology and communication. Direct thematic peer covering telecommunications, computing, and digital history — directly overlapping with the Frankfurt museum's core communication-and-technology focus.
• Archiv für Philatelie (Museumsstiftung): Bonn-based philately archive operated by the same Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation. Same parent foundation, same postal/telecom heritage focus, and shared collection access — a natural peer for programming and collection strategy comparison.
• Museum für Kommunikation Nürnberg: Third sister museum under Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation, sharing collection assets, programming framework, and operational structure with the Frankfurt and Berlin locations. Directly comparable in mission, audience, and revenue model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

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