 It was never intended to replace verbal language; it was a “helping language” always accompanied by verbal elements.Otto Neurath realized that it could never be a fully developed language, so instead he called it a “language-like technique”.As more requests came to the Vienna museum from abroad, a partner institute called Mundaneum (a name adopted from an abortive collaboration with Paul Otlet) was established in 1931/2 to promote international work.