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German National Library closed during Easter

18 to 21 April 2025: The German National Library will be closed at both locations. The exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing will open from 10:00 to 18:00.

Leipzig: Wednesday, 30.04.2025

The reading rooms in the main building of the German National Library in Leipzig will close at 14:00 due to an event. The museum reading room, the music reading room and the service area are open until 18.00. The exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing will open from 10:00 to 18:00.

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View of an illuminated display case in the exhibition of the German Museum of Books and Writing

KI-Box

“The future has arrived overnight” - side view with quotation on the AI Box “The future has arrived overnight” - side view with quotation on the AI Box

AI in the museum? The new AI Box in the German Museum of Books and Writing offers you the chance to experience an interactive installation. In the AI Box, visitors can explore artificial intelligence for themselves.
(Photo: DNB, Christine Hartmann)

“Get inside the box to think out of the box” With these words, the German Museum of Books and Writing invites visitors to step inside the AI Box and try out a wide range of AI applications, right in the museum's foyer. The author Thomas Ramge has written that “Artificial intelligence cannot take thinking away from us”, yet it remains one of the goals of AI to automate human thought. But what happens if we actually manage to translate thought processes into machine-programmable processes? Will it be a curse or a blessing?

The Museum’s AI Box puts research findings related to the exhibition and the project into perspective within the issue as a whole, making them accessible in order to prompt wider public reflection on AI. There are many ways to play with and expand the AI Box. At present, the AI Box takes up issues from the temporary exhibition, Translation: from Babylon to DeepL, the Europe of Languages (German Museum of Books and Writing, 16 March 2021 to 29 January 2022), illuminating new perspectives on the future of translating. Visitors can get to know how machine translation works by playing with it.

Full view of the AI Box Photo: DNB, Christine Hartmann

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Full view of the AI Box

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  1. Lessons learned at the museum – the digital programme of the German Museum of Books and Writing
  2. Digital access to the St. Elizabeth manuscript
  3. Unique image sources for front-line book shops
  4. KI-Box
  5. Information – a raw material? Data fuelling station at the German Museum of Books and Writing
  6. Books in the third dimension - Museum acquires a collection of kinetic books
  7. KlingKlang – sounds from media history
  8. Book bags – The collection of publisher Mark Lehmstedt
  9. A family of bookbinders in Germany and Europe – additions to the Röllig estate
  10. Pre-mortem legacy from Hans Ticha
  11. Open! Stories from the German Museum of Books and Writing
  12. 75 years on... digitisation project “Digital Historic Book Collection”

Last changes: 22.04.2021
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