How to get the most out of your visit to Deutsches Museum
Munich - Bavaria
Deutsches Museum – Masterpieces of Science and Technology
I often find it difficult to go to museums. Not because I find them boring; on the contrary I find them fascinating and enlightening. There’s the problem! A heap of information to take in. That’s when my brain tends to shut down.
The Deutsches Museum is no different. Being the world’s largest museum of science and technology it will take you the better part of a day and more to explore everything if you like taking in the details. I would break it up into smaller bite size chunks and pick a few highlights.
After all, it’s not the length of time you spend there but the value you get out of the visit.
Entering Deutsches Museum was a bit like being Marty McFly in Back to the future climbing into Doc Brown’s time machine.
Entering one floor you step back in time to historic aviation. On another it feels like you’ve entered a Sci Fi realm while you marvel at nano technology. In between the two? There’s a whole lot more to see. We went down into just about the dungeons and started with the mining exhibition. We continued into the Marine Navigation section as well as Historic Aviation and then whizzed through the exhibits of Nano and Biotechnology.
We ran out of time and didn’t manage to see all the exhibitions, so I would advise that you plan carefully.
We were also rushed towards the end because we wanted to see one of the most popular demonstrations in the museum, which you will read about below.
After the demonstration we had a few minutes to spare before closing time and hurried through the technical toys exhibition.
Worthwhile information to make the most out of your visit to Deutsches Museum.
The museum is undergoing some changes while being modernised so not all exhibits are displayed. That is not a bad thing, because I find it encouraging to see updates and restorations.
Some of the exhibitions will re-open in 2021. Even so, 25 000 square meters is available for the public to view at the moment and you could still spend a whole day there.
It is possible to walk for 9 kilometres with more than thirty exhibitions dedicated to science and technology.
The entire museum covers an area of 50 000 square meters.
Some of the other exhibits include mining, glass blowing, marine navigation, oceanography, environment, a Kids Kingdom, physics, pharmaceutics, technical toys and musical instruments. There is even a flight simulator.
Steam boat
Where is the Deutsches Museum?
How do you get to the Deutsches Museum?
There is a variety of public transport to get to the museum. Limited parking is available at the museum but it is not recommended.
Using the S-Bahn, take any of the trains to Isartor.
If you use the tram, take one of the following lines:
Line 17 to Deutsches Museum
Line 16 to Isartor
Line 18 to Fraunhoferstraße
Use one of the following bus lines:
Line 132 to Boschbrücke
Line 52 and 62 to Baaderstrasse
The U-Bahn suggestions:
Line 1 and 2 to Fraunhoferstrasse
Is the museum wheelchair friendly?
The museum has access for the disabled or for people with limited mobility. There are ramps or lifts to most of the exhibitions. The restaurant is reachable via a lift from the picnic room.
There is disabled parking available at Boschbrucke.
Admission prices to the Deutsches Museum
Ticket prices as at 2019 is €14 for adults and children over 6. Kids under 6 are admitted for free.
There are combined tickets for €21. You can visit the Deutsches Museum plus the Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum as well as the Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim with no limit to the time to see all three. They are however in different areas.
For more information about ticket prices click here.
If you do not want to pay cash you could use a Visa or Mastercard for payments over €20 or you could use your EC card (Maestro) if you have one.
Hours when the museum is open
The Deutsches Museum is open daily from 9 am to 5 pm except for public holidays.
Did you know coffee is a thing in the museum?
If you are interested in finding out about the development of espresso machines and how to make a perfect espresso, they have a special exhibition called Cosmos Coffee. We didn’t even have a chance to walk through but we could certainly smell the coffee!
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Vintage and historic aviation
We had great delight in exploring the early history of flight from airships and balloons to one of the first mass produced aircrafts designed by Orville and Wilbur Wright which is almost in its original condition.
Visit one of the most popular demonstrations in the museum.
Artificial lightning, a high-voltage demonstration, is one of the most popular events in the museum. However, please note that the sound is extremely loud at certain times and can be frightening.
Lightning strikes are simulated and the Faraday Cage demonstration is particularly impressive when a voltage of approximately 270 kV is applied to a wire lattice sphere while someone sits inside. Does the person climb out unscathed? You’ll have to see for yourself when you go there.
Faraday cage
Download the free app for the Deutsches Museum
The Deutsches Museum App is informative with up to the minute information in German and English with suggestions of tours, photos and interactive maps.
I was disappointed to realise we didn’t have photos of modern technology – maybe we were too exhausted by then to capture any. We definitely didn’t have enough time and rushed towards the end because we wanted to see the demonstration about artificial lightning. It is quite impressive.
Photo courtesy of Deutsches Museum instagram
Sneakers made from coffee grounds
Cameras long before today's smart watches
The "Steineck A-B-C" was built in 1950, the "Casio Wrist Camera WQV-10" is from the year 2002
Lego VW Campervan
A world-record of more than 400.000 Lego-bricks, five meters long, 1.3 meters wide, three meters high and weighs 700 kg
Close-up of Apple 1
One of first personal computers on display in the microelectronics
Virus module
Have you been to the Deutsches Museum? If so, do you have any useful tips to add?
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