Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany

The Deutsches Museum is the world's largest museum of science and technology, with approximately 1.5 million visitors per year and about 28,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology.

The museum was founded on June 28, 1903, at a meeting of the Association of German Engineers as an initiative of Oskar von Miller. The main site of the Deutsches Museum is a small island in the Isar river, which had been used for rafting wood since the Middle Ages. The island did not have any buildings before 1772 because it was regularly flooded prior to the building of the Sylvensteinspeicher. In 1944, near the end of the war, the building was hit by numerous air strikes. More than 80% of the structure was destroyed.

This amazing attraction is the largest technological museum of its kind in the world and is renowned for its incredible historic artifacts, which mark important steps in the field of science and technology. Exhibits at the Deutsches Museum are many and varied and cover topics such as aerospace, astronomy, agriculture, computers, chemistry, electricity, marine navigation, mining, music, railways, and telecommunication.

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Kase James (10 months ago)
Very cool! Didn't expect to see as much as I saw, and the grounds are very pretty. The gift shop was pretty weak for my tastes with no good choices for patches/buttons/stickers but it's more of a shop geared towards children anyway. Worth a visit, a little bit of everything!

Dalegendary Mclaren (10 months ago)
One of the biggest museums I've visited. There are a lot of places where you can experiment around with and lots of hands on experience instead of just watching. Some of the areas lack English, but it’s alright. Everything overall is also very clean. You can honestly learn a lot of new information just by visiting this museum. Defiantly would recommend going.

Karen Chong (11 months ago)
An absolutely amazing museum inside an unpretentious building! This is definitely the most impressive science museum I’ve ever visited. All the exhibits are of very high quality and are presented and displayed thoughtfully and beautifully. From physics to chemistry, car engines, trains, aircraft, space, bridges, music, bio medicine, printing, photography …the range of subjects is huge. We planned to spend half a day there but turn out staying from 10am till close. We enjoyed every bit of it, although can’t understand everything. This should be the top choice of museum in Munich!

Jonathan Dyrborg (11 months ago)
Amazing museum! You're going to enjoy this place for hours on end if there's just the slightest nerd, or child, in you. There are multiple stories with multiple interactive exhibitions on each of them covering almost all the natural science subjects.

Scott Reoch (11 months ago)
This is one of the best industrial/science/transportation museums ever. We didn't plan enough time here...not even close. But all three of us thoroughly enjoyed our couple of hours at the museum. The next time I'm in Munich, I'll be sure to earmark an entire afternoon or more to see everything here. My only complaint is that there is too much to see and learn about. Again, just an amazing collection of industrial/ transportation/ science items. *VERY* highly recommended!

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