Munich – Part three – The Deutsches Museum of Technology

On my last day in Munich I decided to go to the Deutsches Museum of Technology.  This was similar to the Chicago Museum of science and technology except it was a lot bigger. The building is 6 stories tall and over 500,000 square feet of space.  It was very interesting because every area of the 64 different exhibits went through the history of each subject.  It had the of everything including aeronautics with a full size Wright brothers plane, to a World War I plane, to a modern day fighter jet.

Another area they had was shipping / marine navigation.  This area had a full size old ship with a cut out in it so you could see the insides, tons and tons of anchors, replicas of ships, and even a German U-boat (submarine from World War I).

Some of the other areas they had were Power Machinery

Musical instruments

Textile technology

Ceramics

Photo and Film.  These items were the start of film.  The thing on the left had a bird cage on one side and a bird on the other.  When you spun the thing fast enough the bird looked like it was in the cage. 

I didn’t even come close to stopping and reading (most items had both German and English) all the information and even with just walking through it all it took me over 6 hours to do that.  It was definitely an overload of information.  Everyone said that you could be in there for days and they were right.  If your interested and want more information you can go to Deutsches Museum  I walked back through the town for one last time and got to the train station to board my train back to Stuttgart.  This was a very eventful and interesting adventure and I can’t wait for the next one.