Thursday, November 05, 2009

Berlin travel tip: A museum for everyone who loves letters

If you're fascinated by typography and vintage sign letters, we have a must-see museum stop for you during your next visit to Germany.

Photographer Joschko Hammermann, whose work you can see here on his website, told us about the Buchstaben museum when he stopped by Timeless Treasures a few weeks ago. For anyone who's intrigued by letter forms and fonts, the story of this museum and the efforts by its organizers to save and display old signage from Berlin is pure delight.

You can read more about this tiny, difficult to find slice of typographic heaven here. From what we hear, it is a trek well worth making.