Deutsches Museum

Deutsches Museum
Deutsches Museum with Boschbridge
Deutsches Museum (2022)
Map
Established28 June 1903 (1903-06-28)
Location
  • Museumsinsel 1
  • 80538 München
  • Germany
Type
Collection size125,000
Visitors1.5 million
Websitewww.deutsches-museum.de Edit this at Wikidata

The Deutsches Museum (German Museum, officially Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik (English: German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology)) in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of science and technology, with about 125,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology.[1] It receives about 1.5 million visitors per year.

The museum was founded on 28 June 1903, at a meeting of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) as an initiative of Oskar von Miller. It is the largest museum in Munich. For a period of time the museum was also used to host pop and rock concerts including The Who, Jimi Hendrix and Elton John.[2]

  1. ^ "The New York Times Travel Guide dated 10 Aug 2008 states that "this is the largest technological museum of its kind in the world."". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 3, 2012. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
  2. ^ Abendzeitung, Germany (2016-01-27). "Deutsches Museum: Kongresshalle wird zur Event-Location: Gaudi und Tralala - München - Abendzeitung München". Abendzeitung-muenchen.de. Retrieved 2017-06-19.