That isn't a crypto or code machine. It's a Lorenz tape printer which transmits and receives text to/from a similar machine across a telegraph line. There are a lot of them in existence because they were used widely for decades, for instance by post offices for sending telegrams up until the 50s or 60s even. In fact it's a near copy of an American product made by Teletype. Here's one in operation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LhCmg20Dqs
Most of the news articles about this are confused, but what makes this particular unit interesting is that it was an actual wartime military unit, many/most of which were destroyed. In addition to military labeling it has some of the standard characters replaced by different ones used by german military. It is not a cipher machine itself, but probably was used in conjunction with one, with an operator keying in plain text to the cipher machine, then reading out the cipher text and transcribing it to one of these.
EDIT: the actual cipher machine in question is the Lorenz SZ42 (http://ift.tt/1NYXS81) , which the museum already has, on loan from Norway. All the discovery of this teleprinter gains them is the ability to demonstrate the whole workflow with close-to-original equipment.
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