Deutsches Museum
Things To Do in Munich: Deutsches Museum
Website: Deutsches Museum Website
The Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany is an incredible place to spend a day. It is the world’s largest museum of technology and science and churns through about 1.5 million visitors a year and showcases about 28 thousand exhibitions from 50 different fields of science and technology. Founded in 1903 at a meeting of the Assosication of German Engineers or VDI as an initiative of Oskar von Miller. The full translation of the name to English is “German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology” and it is the largest museum in Munich.
The Deutsches Museum was erected on a small island in the Isar river – a river used for rafting wood since the Middle Ages! Prior to 1772 there were no buildings on the island because it was regularly flooded until the Sylvensteinspeicher was built. In the year of 1772 the Isar barracks were built on the island and after a major flood in 1899 the building was rebuilt with extra flood protection. In the year of 1903 the city that they would donate the island for free to the newly built Deutsches Museum.
In 1772 the Isar barracks were built on the island and after the flooding of 1899 the building was rebuilt with flood protection. In 1903 the city council announced that they would give the island for free for the newly built Deutsches Museum. At this point, the island formerly known as Kohleinsel (coal island) was then named Museumsinsel (museum island).
In addition to the main site on the Museumsinsel, the museum has two branches in and near Munich and one in Bonn.
Current permanent exhibits
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