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Prototyp eines Fendt Traktors mit Tastmodell

Photo: Deutsches Museum

Man and Environment

Agriculture and Food – From the field to the table

Across several thematic areas with numerous interactive elements, you will learn about the origins of our “daily bread” – and discover its impact and adverse effects on our health and the environment.

This exhibition provides a wonderful insight into where our food comes from and how it is produced. Presented across several thematic areas, the museum’s technology-driven, historical collection is linked to social, economic and ecological factors. In the first room, idyll and reality are juxtaposed, symbolised by an original alpine hut and a modern forage harvester. We then focus on livestock and their treatment – from breeding and husbandry to slaughter. The next thematic area is dedicated to agricultural machinery and includes a historic Lanz Bulldog tractor, a combine harvester and a prototype of a field robot. Their field of application – crop cultivation – follows in the next thematic area. At the centre of the exhibition hall in a darkened, partially mirrored room, visitors can watch a large atmospheric projection of a wheat field over the course of a year. At the far end of the exhibition, brewing kettles, a model of a brewery and a steam oven await. And the interactive food shelf provides food for thought on abundance and scarcity in the modern world.

Programme in the exhibition

Der Melkroboter in der Ausstellung.
  • Workshop

Milking by hand

  • Deutsches Museum – The Museumsinsel - Agriculture and Food Exhibition

When will this event take place?

Discover which activities are taking place by checking our daily programme, which is published at around 9.20 each day. Our programme changes daily and includes guided tours, demonstrations, science shows and hands-on activities for individual visitors and small groups of up to five people. All programme events are held in German. They begin either directly where the activity is set to take place or at a guided-tour meeting point in the relevant exhibition.

Fascinating miniature worlds

Masterful showcases

Dioramas in the exhibitions

Museum founder Oskar von Miller already believed that it is easier to imagine many things if you see them in their normal surroundings. This is why there are dioramas in almost every exhibition at the Deutsches Museum. These are fascinating miniature worlds in a display case that take you back to ancient Greece or to an icy North Pole expedition or depict a landing on the moon.

More about dioramas

Special objects in the collection

Traktor, Schlepper R 28 B, Hanomag

From: -

Date: 1952

Traktor Fendt 211 Vario

From: -

Date: 2018

Traktor, Allzweck-Bauern-Bulldog C5506, Lanz

From: -

Date: 1950 - 1952

Facts and Figures

  • Location: Level 3
  • Exhibition space: approx. 982 m2
  • Exhibits and models: approx. 200
  • Media stations and demonstrationsn: 25
  • Dioramas: 3

Any Questions?

  • Dr. Sabine Gerber-Hirt

    Leitung Hauptabteilung AI Naturwissenschaften / Leiterin Abt. wiss. Volontärinnen & Volontäre / Kuratorische Leiterin Ausstellung Landwirtschaft & Ernährung / Kuratorin für Umwelt & Deutscher Zukunftspreis / Leitung Ausstellungsbeirat des Deutschen Museum

  • Thomas Röber

    Curator

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