Stepping through a vaulted stone archway into what appears to be a medieval sorcerer's workshop, this official museum postcard from the Deutsches Museum in Munich documents the institution's celebrated Alchemistisches Laboratorium — one of the most atmospheric reconstructed spaces in any science museum in the world. Retorts, alembics, crucibles, and distillation vessels crowd every surface; pots and pans hang overhead from an iron rack; framed documents and diagrams paper the rough stone walls; and the great central hearth with its bellows equipment evokes centuries of the proto-chemist's art. The Deutsches Museum, founded by Oskar von Miller and opened to the public in 1903 (with its landmark island building inaugurated 1925), issued this as official postcard Nr. 8, published by J. Lindauersche Univ.-Buchhandlung (Schöpping) of Munich. The card is unused and in clean condition, making it a fine example of early institutional museum ephemera at the dawn of science communication.