Deutsches Museum - Munich, Germany
N 48° 07.828 E 011° 34.999
32U E 692210 N 5334029
The Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of technology and science, with approximately 1.3 million visitors per year and about 28,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology.
Waymark Code: WM2WTH
Location: Bayern, Germany
Date Posted: 01/01/2008
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Photography for private use is permitted in the museum.
The museum was founded on June 28, 1903, at a meeting of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) as an initiative of Oskar von Miller. The full name of the museum in English is The German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology.
The main site of the Deutsches Museum is a small island in the Isar river.
Some most notable exhibits are :
The central exhibition hall with its displays of marine navigation and early aeronautics including an example of a Wright Brothers Standard Type A Series developed from the original flyer, examples of the V1 and V2 rockets developed by Germany in WWII, and a U1 submarine.
The museum maintains exhibits in the following areas :
Aerospace
Agriculture
Altamira Cave, reproduction of a Spanish cave with stone-age paintings
Amateur Radio
Astronautics
Astronomy
Bridge Building
Ceramics
Chemistry
Chronometry
Computers
Digital Imaging (Under Construction as of 2006)
Electrical Power
Energy Technology
Environment
Geodesy
Glass
History of the Deutsches Museum
Hydraulic engineering
Machine Components
Machine Tools
Marine Navigation
Masterpieces
Mathematical Gallery
Mining (Historical and Modern)
Metallurgy
Microelectronics
Mineral Oil and Natural Gas
Music
Paper
Pharmacy
Physics
Power Machinery
Printing
Scientific Instruments
Technical Toys
Telecommunications
Textile Technology
Tunnel Construction
Weights and Measures
(some text taken from Wikipedia)
Name: Deutsches Museum
Location/Address:
Museumsinsel 1
München, Germany
80538
Telephone Number: (+49) 89 2179 1
Web Site: [Web Link]
Type/Specialty: All areas
Agency/Ownership: -
Educational programs: -
Theater: yes
Hours of operation: daily from 09:00 to 17:00
Admission Fee: €8.50
Gift Shop: yes
Cafe/Restaurant: A very nice cafeteria style restaurant and 2 smaller snack bars
Other Features: Not listed
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