Check out these four exhibitions at IATM Member Institutions
The International Association of Transport and Communication Museums (IATM) is an enormously diverse museum community. There are big and small institutions safeguarding and educating on a large variety of topics around transport and communication. Our article informs about four of the current temporary exhibitions developed and displayed at IATM members’ museums.
Join us for a round of traveling on the road and through time. And to read comics and get back on the street again.
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Heading towards Dresden
We’re starting our journey towards Dresden, only to be sidetracked by a truck. “On the road again! A Trucker’s World” at the Verkehrsmuseum Dresden takes you into a world that is ever present but yet often unnoticed.
For many car drivers, trucks are annoying and disruptive. Even though they’re essential for the smooth operation of our everyday lives. Often, lorry drivers remain completely unnoticed. “On the road again! A trucker’s world” is the first major exhibition to bring them and their work out of anonymity.
Trucks are indispensable. Our cities and their residents, businesses and shops are dependent on delivery transport. Thus, lorry drivers keep a large part of the (goods) world running; they are the backbone of trade and the transport system. But who knows the drivers and their everyday lives?
Do you have a personal perspective on lorry drivers? For example as an annoyed car driver or a worried pedestrian or cyclist. This exhibition offers a view from the other side.
Change your perspective
What is it like to work and live on the road and in the lorry itself? What makes the job a passion for many lorry drivers, despite some adversities? Additionally, the exhibition looks at trucks in the context of globalisation, logistics and explores the industry’s future.
You can immerse yourself in a trucker’s world by entering their living room, visiting a service station with expensive coffee and heading towards a logistics centre. Here, you can follow a dispatcher managing freight logistics. Furthermore, you may browse through a truck shop or learn hands on about tyre wear. Last but not least, lend a hand: Climb into the cab of a real lorry, secure loads with lashing straps, make contact with other guests via radio, steer a miniature lorry around a course, dress up as a trucker for a cover shoot or test how quick your reactions are.
Discover the world of our truckers at Verkehrsmuseum Dresden until 4 January 2026 (free entry for IATM members). » Get to know the lory drivers
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Is there still time left?
One of the pressing issues for truck drivers is time. The concept of time – especially as we know and apply it today – is closely linked to the history of logistics and especially the postal service.
“Manufacturing Time” explores the many facets of this history, using postal objects and works by contemporary artists to take visitors on a dizzying journey through history, art and imagination.
Over the centuries, the Post Office and time have woven a unique and, in many ways, little-known story. At the Musée de la Poste in Paris, France it is now told through over 100 objects that enter a conversation with contemporary art works.
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The historic background of the exhibition
As early as 1839, the postal administration in France, whose activities were affected by the fact that time was not synchronised between municipalities, obtained an order from the Ministry of the Interior for municipal clocks to be set according to tables supplied by the Bureau des Longitudes, thus laying the foundations for a shared ‘national time’.
The rise of the railway in the mid-19th century further reinforced the need for a single time throughout the country. The telegraph enabled all public clocks to be synchronised with the time from the Paris Observatory. These technical advances reflect a constant challenge for La Poste: to provide a fast, reliable and accurate service. Through the standardisation of time and the integration of new technologies, La Poste is establishing itself as a key player in the harmonisation of time and as an institution that is deeply rooted in societal transformations.
It is this relationship with time that the Musée de La Poste has decided to highlight in the exhibition. It does so through a row of remarkable objects. Among them are a travel clock from the late eighteenth century, a mail coach watch from 1850 and historical photographs dating from 1887 to the present day. Furthermore, pieces of marcophily and philately and other artefacts invite you on a journey through time.
Contemporary works correspond with these objects. They interpret them and the heritage they represent. Come along to question our perception of time through poetic, philosophical and sometimes even humorous perspectives.
Don’t miss this exceptional exhibition and travel to Paris until 5 January 2026!
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Reading makes us happy
To be prepared for the above, here is some French for your stay. “L’heure est venue” does not only mean “time is up,” it’s also the title of a comic created by Karolina Chyzewska in 2021/2022. The story and images explore the thoughts, ideas and questions of people in France, particularly Paris, following the new everyday life post-COVID and ahead of the French 2022 presidential elections.
The comic was developed during a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Along with scholarships, this residency is awarded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion to Berlin based comic artists every year.
The drafts and works by current and previous scholars are displayed at the Museum für Kommunikation Berlin , Germany, until 11 January 2026.
“Comic Scholarship Berlin 2025,” co-organised by the Deutsche Comicverein e. V., enables inspiring insights into the diverse world of the Berlin comic art scene. The topics range from reflections on homelessness and drugs in “Am Hügel” by Constantin Satüpo or exploring the life with ME/CFS in “Jeder Tag” (“Every Day”) by Paula Kempker to a look at the history of art therapy in “Outsider Art” by Clayton Junior.
A reading corner invites you to dive deeper and get lost in the different stories created by young, established and rising comic artists. » See more than a cartoon
After immersing yourself in the world of Comics you have some time before continuing your journey. The last stop on this tour takes you to Prague, Czech Republic.
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Admiring and preserving the art of car manufacture
The National Technical Museum recently acquired 15 valuable vehicles of the Praga brand from the private collection of Emil Příhoda. A selection of eight of them is now on display in “A Life Dedicated to Pragas. A Tribute to Emil Příhodau Příhodovi” located in the Transport Hall.
In the 1920s and early 1930s, the Prague-based automaker Praga held the top position in the sale of passenger and commercial vehicles in Czechoslovakia and exported its cars abroad. From 1957 onward, Emil Příhoda devoted himself to documenting the production at the Praga factory. Over the course of more than six decades, he built a unique collection, saved an extensive set of culturally significant items, many of which were endangered by destruction at the time, especially when the factory closed.
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You will see touring and utility models manufactured between 1921 and 1946, including luxury cars such as the Praga Grand, Mignon, and Golden, the iconic small car Praga Super Piccolo, the utility vehicle Praga AN, and the Praga AN bus. The ninth exhibited automobile is a borrowed Praga Alfa, the first Praga owned by Emil Příhoda.
Visit the new acquisitions until 1 March 2026 at the Národní Technické Muzeum in Prague, Czech Republic. » More on the new acquisitions
There is much more to see at our member institutions. We will share more exhibitions with you soon!
