The transcription workshop took place in cooperation with the MfN archive from 2019 to 2025. An estimated 40,000 files from the 19th and 20th centuries, which are kept in the archive of the museum, are written in old German manuscripts. By working closely with scholarly projects on the selection of documents, participants have been integrated into the museum's research work and actively contributed to it themselves.
In the advanced workshop, a dedicated group with a good knowledge of old manuscripts transcribed historical documents of the MfN and transfered the texts into modern formats.
Courses for beginners to learn how to read the handwritings Kurrent and Sütterlin were offered between 2020 and 2022.