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Deutsches Museum – Experience science and technology first-hand

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VR mining experience

The old Visitor’s Mine at the Deutsches Museum can now be explored again in VR. The virtual tour gives you an immersive insight into the working world underground in times gone by.

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Ein Museumsausstellungsraum mit historischen Tasteninstrumenten: im Vordergrund ein aufgeklappter, hellholzfarbener Flügel mit verziertem Notenpult und Notenblatt, im Hintergrund eine stehende Person mit roter Weste (Gesicht unkenntlich) die offenbar erklärt; zwei Besucherinnen im Vordergrund von hinten gesehen; helle Innenraumbeleuchtung, dekorative Stuckdecke und große Fenster.
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Highlight Tour

Discover the highlights and immerse yourself in our diverse range of themes. The tour revolves around science and technology, encompassing everything from popular historical exhibits to current topics.

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Experience science

Overview

Exhibition Highlights

The Deutsches Museum presents the past, present and future of technology and the natural sciences. Experience knowledge in 20 permanent exhibitions from astronautics to classical optics, from chemistry to robotics and from the Kids' Kingdom to health.

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Hands-on stations

Touch and try-out

We offer interactive stations and push-button experiments in all exhibitions. Our dioramas, the lifelike showcases, also vividly convey knowledge. You can experiment and become active yourself in our laboratory areas and hands-on stations.

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Plan your visit

Prices and tickets, directions and opening hours can be found on the Visit page. We recommend downloading the free Deutsches Museum App.

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Progammes A-Z

All attractions at a glance

What makes the Deutsches Museum so special is the wide range of programmes for different target groups: lectures on current science topics, highlight tours, hands-on activities and laboratory programmes for adults.

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“As a teenager, the Deutsches Museum was a revelation: all my dreams spread out before me in concentrated form.”
Ulrich Walter, full professor at the Chair of Astronautics and patron of the Deutsches Museum

Research and Science

Open for all

Library

One million volumes, 53,000 articles: visit Germany's largest library specialising in the history of science and technology.

Treasury for researchers

Archives

Original documents including company documents, technical drawings and manuscripts spanning nine centuries are archived on 4.7 kilometres of shelving.

Research in the museum

Research institute

Research forms the basis of the museum's work, focussing on the history of science and technology, digitisation and restoration, among others.

A century project

Modernisation

Insights behind the scenes of the major construction site, the milestones on the way to the renewal of the building and the exhibitions, our committed sponsors: Here you will find everything about the century project of the Deutsches Museum!

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Behind the scenes

More than a museum

Collecting, preserving, exhibiting and educating. Learn more about the different tasks carried out at the Deutsches Museum and about our team – from our workshops to museum management.

More about the museum

125,000Objects in the collection

53Subject areas from chemistry to timekeeping

25.000Exhibits in the exhibitions

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