Museum for Communication Frankfurt

This guide to the Museum for Communication in Frankfurt starts with a strange fact: only four full-color lobster telephones exist, and one sits in a museum built for stamps and switchboards. It traces the object back to 1936, when the English poet and patron Edward James asked Salvador Dali for a telephone he could actually use, and what Dali sent him instead. Down the same halls stand two more disabled telephones, one gagged in felt by Joseph Beuys and one bound shut in canvas and rope by Christo.