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The German Museum in Munich


The German Museum in Munich

The German Museum, Munich

The maxim here is „knowledge is power“.

Location: Museumsinsel 1, 80538 München (in walking distance from downtown Marienplatz).

The German Museum‘s collection includes over 100,000 objects from the fields of science and technology. Many valuable, original exhibits are on show, making this one of the most important museums of science and technology in the world. The collections are not limited to one theme but range from mining to atomic physics, from the Altamira Cave to a large-scale replica of a human cell.

All eras are represented, from the Stone Age to the present day. Around a quarter of the collection is on display: in the main building on the museum island, at the transport museum at Theresienhöhe, in the hangar at Schleissheim airfield and at the German Museum in Bonn. The highlights include the first car built by Karl Benz, the „U1“ U-boat, the Wright brothers‘ first motorised plane and the first Fischer rawlplug. Visitors to the museum can explore more than 40 themes.

The displays, many of which are interactive, are a synthesis of objects, specialist knowledge, research, architecture and design. An ongoing restructuring programme ensures that information about science and technology, past and present, is conveyed in the most effective way. Besides the permanent exhibitions, the German Museum always offers special exhibitions about topical issues in science, technology and research. The focus is on science, materials and production, energy, transport, communication and information, and the educational Children‘s Museum. New projects tackle exciting questions such as „Can health be grown in a lab?“, „Will my fridge soon be able to communicate with my telephone?“, „Will genetic diagnostics change our ideas about human beings?“ New technologies are changing our world. Discoveries in biotechnology and nanotechnology are raising far-reaching questions to which society often has no answer. Controversial issues and the latest in research are presented at the centre for new technologies. Visitors here can explore the nanoworld with a scanning tunnelling microscope and analyse their DNA or watch a nano researcher at work.

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