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Deutsches Museum

The Deutsches Museum (German Museum, officially Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik (English: German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology)) in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of science and technology, with about 125,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology.[1] It receives about 1.5 million visitors per year.

For other uses, see Deutsches Museum (disambiguation).

Established

28 June 1903 (1903-06-28)

  • Museumsinsel 1
  • 80538 München
  • Germany

125,000

1.5 million

www.deutsches-museum.de

The museum was founded on 28 June 1903, at a meeting of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) as an initiative of Oskar von Miller. It is the largest museum in Munich. For a period of time the museum was also used to host pop and rock concerts including The Who, Jimi Hendrix and Elton John.[2]

1903 Museum's foundation

1906 Opening the provisional collections in the rooms of the former National Museum in Maximilianstrasse

1909 Opening additional collections in the old barracks on the Isar (Ehrhardtstraße)

1911 Topping out ceremony of collection house

1925 Opening of the Deutsches Museum in the new building on Museum Island

1928 Laying the foundation stone for the library and hall

1930 Topping out ceremony of the library and hall

1932 Opening of the library

1935 Opening of the Congress Center

1944 Destruction of 80 percent of the building

1948 Reopening after the destruction

1983 Destruction of marine and engine sections by fire

1984 Opening of the new hall for Aerospace; temporary closure of some departments to hail and water damage

1992 Opening of the Schleißheim's Aviation Museum at the 's airport

Oberschleißheim

1995 Opening a branch of the Deutsches Museum in

Bonn

2003 Opening of the Transportation Center on the former exhibition grounds

2006 Opening the Halls I and II of Transportation Center on the

Theresienhöhe

October 2015 start of the first major phase of renovation/modernization, with several exhibits closing

September 2021 Opening of the branch Deutsches Museum Nuremberg - "Das Zukunftsmuseum"

(the D.M.'s offsite aviation museum)

Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim

List of museums in Germany

List of science museums

MVG Museum

(in English)

Deutsches Museum

Archived 2015-04-28 at the Wayback Machine (in English)

Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleißheim

(in English)

Deutsches Museum Transport Centre

(in English)

Deutsches Museum in Bonn

in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

Documents and clippings about Deutsches Museum

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