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Museumsinsel

The Deutsches Museum – Discover Science Live

that's on now

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Closed on March 4,2025

Special exhibition

Laser trifft auf Rasierklinge und erzeugt Lichtfunken.
  • Special exhibition

Light and matter

The sun at the beach, the scanner at the supermarket checkout or the signal in a fibre optic cable: when light encounters matter – or matter encounters light – exciting things happen!

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Illustration: Typo "Wartungstage" auf Deutsch und Englisch, und kleine Baustellen-Icobs, Stichsäge, Leiter, Farbrolle, Farbeimer, Pinsel und Bohnkopf

Maintenance days in the exhibitions

Between now and Easter 2025, each of the exhibitions on the Museumsinsel will be closed to visitors for about a week, one after the other.

Blick in das Kinderreich mit Erklär-Wand, als Einführung in das Kinderreich.

Access rule for Kids' Kingdom

From Monday 11 November 2024, it will no longer be necessary to book a time slot for the Kids' Kingdom. Admission is still limited.

Experience science

Overview

Exhibition Highlights

The Deutsches Museum presents the past, present and future of technology and the natural sciences. Experience knowledge in 20 permanent exhibitions from astronautics to classical optics, from chemistry to robotics and from the Kids' Kingdom to health.

Go to our exhibitions

hands-on stations

Touch and try-out

We offer interactive stations and push-button experiments in all exhibitions. Our dioramas, the lifelike showcases, also vividly convey knowledge. You can experiment and become active yourself in our laboratory areas and hands-on stations.

More about our programme

Relaxed and well-informed

Plan your visit

Prices and tickets, directions and opening hours can be found on the Visit page. We recommend downloading the free Deutsches Museum App.

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Progammes A-Z

All attractions at a glance

What makes the Deutsches Museum so special is the wide range of programmes for different target groups: lectures on current science topics, highlight tours, hands-on activities and laboratory programmes for adults.

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“As a teenager, the Deutsches Museum was a revelation: all my dreams spread out before me in concentrated form.”
Ulrich Walter, full professor at the Chair of Astronautics and patron of the Deutsches Museum

Research and Science

Open for all

Library

One million volumes, 53,000 articles: visit Germany's largest library specialising in the history of science and technology.

Treasury for researchers

Archives

Original documents including company documents, technical drawings and manuscripts spanning nine centuries are archived on 4.7 kilometres of shelving.

Research in the museum

Research institute

Research forms the basis of the museum's work, focussing on the history of science and technology, digitisation and restoration, among others.

A century project

Modernisation

Insights behind the scenes of the major construction site, the milestones on the way to the renewal of the building and the exhibitions, our committed sponsors: Here you will find everything about the century project of the Deutsches Museum!

To Modernisation

Behind the scenes

More than a museum

Collecting, preserving, exhibiting and educating. Learn more about the different tasks carried out at the Deutsches Museum and about our team – from our workshops to museum management.

More about the museum

125,000Objects in the collection

53Subject areas from chemistry to timekeeping

25.000Exhibits in the exhibitions

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