Communication
The basic idea behind the whole exhibition is to tell visitors about information, interpersonal communication and means of communication as a consequence of people's need to exchange information. The exhibition is expected to take up 570 m and should be a retrospect into the history, present and new trends in communication. It will include technical means of indirect social communication, from the most primitive to the latest, technically most demanding and complicated ones. We would like you to realize that means of communication are not only surrounding us more and more and becoming part of us, but should be taken at in context, against the background of their constant technical perfection, primarily in relation to their development and human culture itself, which they feed back to. These aspects are currently being investigated by information and communication science, a subject that came into being in the second half of the last century.
We want the exhibition to include the periods of non-electric and electric news transmission, human voice transmission and the related development of the telephone, up to today's mobile communications, information about cable networks, satellite communication and mobile communication. We devote one part of the exhibition to the recording and reproduction of sound and the ways of acquiring sound recordings. Another part should be devoted to the radio – the development of transmitters and receivers – with information about wireless and wire transmission of news, its digitalisation and receipt via internet. A large part will also be devoted to television and the reproduction of television pictures. Items in this part of the exhibition will be placed in a multi-functional space.
Our aim is to better enable you to get to know the relations between these technical fields and to contribute to a deeper understanding of their benefit for the development of communication and information technologies. Another newly created exhibition, Printing – Techniques for Making Printed Media, will follow on loosely from this exhibition.
The exhibits will be presented in a new, possibly as-yet unrealised context and will try to help you understand the area more deeply.
The exhibition will be enriched with a number of interactive elements and will to provide an opportunity to each of you to try and verify the physical principles on which these means of communication are based. Two new multimedia programs – “Acoustics” and “Telecommunications” – will be available, as will stations that enable you to work with the internet and show you webcasting. Last but not least, at the visitors disposal there will be a multimedia programme that will enable to look at the museum's depositaries and itemst that could not be displayed due to a lack of space.
