Deutsches Museum

Today was about one thing: the world’s largest science and technology museum, the Deutsches Museum.

This is it!

Today we visited the main museum – there is also a land transportation focused museum and an aviation museum – from opening at 9:00 am until they kicked us out at 5:00 pm. It’s an excellent museum, pitched at a higher level than science museums we have visited in North America, and the exhibits are extensive. We didn’t get to see everything, due to time restrictions and exhibit closures for a renewal they have underway.

Transportation by sea and air
One heck of a ceramic insulator
Clay brick extrusion die
U1 from 1906
Sea diving suit made of aluminum
Automated tow tank with tiny boats
Engine room of a steam tugboat
One room of the power machinery exhibit
Portable steam engine for threshing
More power machines
The marvels of modern casting
Steps for lost styrofoam casting of engine blocks
Bore-ing
The mining exhibit tunnelled through many levels of fake rock
A replica salt mine
So many detailed dioramas showing industrial processes and practices
Historic aviation
Zeppelin structures
Inside a cell
Inside a cell
Experimental fusion reactor parts
Zap!
Buzz!

After the museum we grabbed a quick meal, wandered beside the river, checked out some new streets in old town, and made our way back to the hotel.

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