Handwriting HISTORY

WITH THE OPENING OF A NEW IMMERSIVE MUSEUM IN GERMANY, MONTBLANC CELEBRATES THE ART OF PENMANSHIP ACROSS TIME AND CULTURE.

- SHAYLA MARTIN

WRITING IS PROOF OF OUR EXISTENCE." These words crawl across a film screen in Montblanc Haus, a three-level experiential museum celebrating the world's most iconic writing instrument.

With its opening in Hamburg, Germany, comes an invitation into the lore and craft of the nearly 120-year-old pen maker whose crown jewel, the Meisterstück, has been prized by titan writers from John F. Kennedy-famously offering his to the German chancellor at the 1963 signing of the golden book in Cologne-to Anne Frank, who is believed to have penned part of her diary with one gifted to her by her grandmother.