Welcome to the Typewriter Museum!

1. Cube

Welcome to the Typewriter Museum. Travel with us back in time and discover the world of the typewriter.

Writing originated as a tool used to communicate language. Writing arose when spoken language was no longer adequate to enable information to be saved and passed on, as life took on more complex forms. In a purely oral culture, this was simply no longer achievable. The transition from a simple hunter-gatherer-farming culture to urban civilisation such as the advanced cultures in Mesopotamia and Egypt 5,000 years ago would have been unthinkable without the written form.
As silent witnesses of these first written cultures, you will see here various examples of cuneiform writing and hieroglyphics, which were deciphered around 200 years ago with the famous Rosetta Stone. These advanced cultures are also symbolised by Egyptian scribes, the first predecessors to the later official scribes and clerks, whose work Peter Mitterhofer from Partschins in South Tyrol wanted to make easier with his invention, the typewriter.

Do you want to learn more about the origin of writing and the job of a scribe? Then continue listening to the next section. Otherwise please continue straight to point 3.