Photo: Deutsches Museum | Reinhard Krause
With enthusiasm and commitment to technology and science
The Friends and Sponsors of the Deutsches Museum
The history of the museum is the history of its friends. Even the museum's founder Oskar von Miller knew: "You can only manage a museum like this with lots of good friends." - "So ein Museum kann man nur mit vielen guten Freunden stemmen."
Members of the Friends and Sponsors at a guided tour by one of our curators in the exhibition Bridges and Hydraulic Enginerring Photo: Nicole Waldburger, Deutsches Museum
Welcome to the Friends and Sponsors
The Friends and Sponsors of the Deutsches Museum, the “Freundes- und Förderkreis des Deutschen Museums e.V.”, supports the Deutsches Museum both ideally and materially in numerous tasks:
- Purchasing exhibits, financing projects and exhibitions, children's, youth and senior citizens' programmes.
- The organization of Friends and Sponsors is one of the founders of the Future Initiative and supports its modernisation.
Are you interested?
You can find out more on the website www.ffk-dm.de/en. We would be delighted to welcome you as a member of the Friends and Sponsors.
To the website of the Friends and Sponsors of the Deutsches Museum
Exclusive tour through "Gmund Papier" for the members of our Friends and Sponsors. Photo: Nicole Waldburger, Deutsches Museum
Expand your network
Members of the Friends and Sponsors receive an honorary ticket and exclusive access to exhibition openings, special tours and evening events. Selected experts provide scientific and technical background information at special lectures. Trips organised by specialists lead to museums and art sites in other countries.
“Deutsches Museum - mon amour! Shaping stages of my life. From the first visits as a child to the wonderful membership today.
Deutsches Museum - mon amour! Lebensetappen prägend. Von den ersten Besuchen in der Kindheit bis zur wunderbaren Mitgliedschaft heute.”
Videos of the Friends and Sponsors
Insights from Friends and Sponsors
Technology and philosophy in space: Ulrich Walter, astronaut and member of the Friends and Sponsoers of the Deutsches Museum, talks to Director General Wolfgang Heckl about the history and future of manned space travel at Flugwerft Schleißheim. The Friends and Sponsors also support the digitalisation of the Deutsches Museum - including live streams and a film series in which board members and juniors present their favourite objects in conversation with the museum's curators and staff. The other episodes can be found on the Deutsches Museum's YouTube channel. Available in German only.
“63 juniors represent the younger generation of Friends and Sponsors. We are ambassadors of a fascinating house.
63 Junioren repräsentieren die junge Generation im Freundeskreis. Wir sind Botschafter eines faszinierenden Hauses.”