Front Page for Posterity

How do you give future generations a taste of what life is like today? One way is by burying a time capsule with a range of objects that represent our daily lives. And what better way to show daily life than a page from a newspaper?

So when they began construction of a new building for the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, they chose to put a time capsule in the foundation stone. During the ceremony, Reinoldijus Šarkinas, Board Chairman of the Bank of Lithuania, inserted the front page of the May 19 issue of Lithuanian business daily Verslo Žinios into the capsule.

The idea was that front pages of dailies from each of the member states of the European Union were placed in the capsule as a symbol of the start of new construction and the foundations of the new European Central Bank building. The capsule also contains architectural designs, all denominations of euro notes, 16 euro coins (each representing a euro-zone country) and the front pages of main daily newspapers published in Frankfurt.