In the center of Berlin, near the famous Alexanderplatz, Karl- Liebknecht-Straße 13 in Berlin Carré, houses the Museum of Arts and typefaces (Buchstabenmuseum).
is not a "classical" museum where to find typographical characters, machines for the various types of printing, etc.. but a place where you keep and document the "letters" without distinction of culture, language and systems of nature in all representations are possible: from those used for three-dimensional signs or pieces of writing, those tattooed, from reproductions in the form of pasta or biscuits to those made with Lego bricks. Any material (whether industrial or artisanal), every media, each condition (new, damaged or distorted) and all forms are good enough that they are "letters".
The letters are the basic elements of all traditions of textual semiotics and written communication.
As a result of the increasing homogenization of the quality of the urban landscape designed letters and signs are disappearing from public view. Due to the disappearance of traditional farms and the affirmation of global brands, regional and historical characters will die out and disappear.
The Museum of Arts - founded in 2005 by Barbara Dechant and Anja Schulze - works as both a "recycling" company and as an archive. The Museum collects objects that are semiotically significant testimony of ABC, meanings regardless of the material they were made, the diversity of functions and aesthetic variety.
The museum is organized to expose their material in an unconventional way, to raise the public's attention on typography as well as the collection itself.
Barbara Dechant loves and collects letters from many years and his collection became bigger and bigger not only in quantity but also in sizes. When he met his colleague Anja Schulze have joined their two inclinations. Anja has always wanted to run a business and its culture was the idea of \u200b\u200ba museum. That's why all the letters large and small now have a nice house.
Their goal is to get letters from all over the world, from Asia for example where these types of lforme are so extraordinarily beautiful.
recently contacted for Italy Aiap where the members, according to the curators of the museum can contribute to the collection of testimonies by sending Italian typographic history.
