A genuinely unusual museum in Aachen's old town, the only one of its kind in the world. The collection holds over 200,000 newspapers from more than 80 countries, with front pages going back to the earliest printed news sheets of the 17th century. Historic front pages cover major world events — the moon landing, the armistice of 1918, the assassination of Lincoln — alongside everyday papers from countries rarely covered in European collections.
The building is on the Pontstraße, Aachen's main student street, and the museum is small enough to see in under two hours. The reading room lets you browse recent international papers; the permanent exhibits trace the history of the press from handwritten newsletters to the digital age.