Special exhibitions - Deutsches Museum

The special exhibitions at the Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum offer diverse insights into a wide range of topics - far beyond mobility and technology. They invite visitors to discover new perspectives and explore fascinating developments of our time.

Current special exhibitions

There are currently no special exhibitions on display at the Verkehrszentrum. We will announce details on upcoming exhibitions here on our website in due course.

Our permanent exhibition

Past special exhibitions

24 April to 31 October 2026, Gallery Hall III

Homo Mobilis

What can a vehicle reveal about its driver? Dutch artist Martin Roemers has photographed people with their vehicles throughout the world. Taken against a white background, the images offer insight into a global culture of personal mobility.

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From 16 January to 12 April 2026, Gallery in Hall III

It's not just the ravages of time

Museum beetles, moths, mould: bad enough in one’s own home – but a pest infestation in a museum is devastating. The travelling exhibition of the Natural History Museum Vienna presents common museum and household pests and illustrates how modern pest-control measures differ from historical ones. In addition, it presents new findings on the impact of climate change on pest-related challenges in museums.

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22 November 2024 to 8 November 2025, Hall I

Thin Ice - Come along on a climate expedition!

Icy winds, biting cold, and months of darkness – the POLARSTERN expedition to the Arctic was extreme. From 2019 onward, the research vessel drifted through the polar seas for more than a year. The team collected data on changes in the Arctic climate, marking a milestone in climate research. With fascinating exhibits and many hands-on activities, the exhibition shows what it is like to conduct research in the Arctic and how climate change is becoming particularly evident there.

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26 May 2023 to 27 May 2024, Hall III

Madness – Illegal Car Racing

Reckless driving is a common occurrence, often ending in tragedy and reaching its peak risk in illegal car racing. This underscores the need to address this phenomenon and, most importantly, to ask: How do we curb the need for speed?

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30 May to 15 July 2023, Hall III

Rabbits&Rails

Public transport as public space: On an imaginary, interactive journey, visitors can experience the role that buses and trains play as places of encounter for people across Europe.

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7 October 2022 to 16 April 2023, Hall I

Bikesharing. Reinventing Cycling

With the special exhibition ‘Bike sharing. Cycling reinvented’, the Verkehrszentrum focuses on the development of shared bicycles and their significance for the mobility transition.

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7 April 2022 until 31 October 2022

Photo exhibition „Auto Land Scape“

At 0 km/h on the motorway – The German motorway network stretches over 13,200 kilometres in all directions across the Federal Republic. Photographer Michael Tewes has focused on these traffic arteries in a six-year project. In his series ‘Auto Land Scape’, he brings into focus what you would normally barely notice out of the corner of your eye as you speed by.

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29 October 2020 until 20 February 2022 , Hall I

Mobile Children's Worlds

In collaboration with the German Bicycle Museum and collector Eva-Maria Mayer, the special exhibition explores over 150 years of "mobile children's worlds." Around 80 exhibited vehicles – some quirky and rare – showcase an astonishing range of inventiveness, childlike imagination, and technical creativity.

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Special exhibitions in the Verkehrszentrum

Current special exhibitions

Past special exhibitions