After the morning lessons today we went to visit the infamous Deutsches Museum.
Judging by the name, it wouldn’t be surprising that many may mistake it as a museum for the history of Germany. Deutsches Museum is in fact the world’s largest museum for science and technology, founded by Oskar von Miller (7 May 1855-9 April 1934) , a German engineer. The full name of the Deutsches Museum is ‘The German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology’ (Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik). The museum has 50 exhibit sections (ranging from Aeronautics, Argriculture/Food technology to Tunnel construction, and Weights and measures) spreading over 47,000sqm, showing the development of science and technology from early origins through to the present day.
There was so much to see in the museum that I couldn’t complete walking through all the exhibit sections within the 3hours I was there. The sections I briefly covered were marine navigation, machine components, power machinery, electrical power, aeronautics, Petroleum and natural gas, physics, musical instruments, scientific chemistry, pharmacology, energy technology. That’s like only 1/5 of the whole museum!
Took photos only at the marine navigation section as the battery in my camera was only half-charged. Below are photos of some of the boats or ships displayed at the museum. I didn't manage to take note of the details for each boat, hence can't describe them here as I would love too. Sorry about that. Well...hope that if you like the boats and would like to know more about them and their history, you can consider visiting the Deutsches Museum if you ever come to Munich.
Just some extra information for those science and technology lovers out there.
Deutsches Museum has 3 other branches, and they are:
1. Deutsches Museum Verkebrszentrum, located at Theresienhöhe in Munich, presents an unique collection transport technology.
2. Flugwerft Schleissbeim, located some 13 Kilometers north of Munich city near the Scheissheim Palace, displays aircraft, helicopters, engines, simulators and exhibitions on selected aspects of the history of aviation and space travel.
3. Deutsches Museum Bonn, located in Bonn, presents 100 highlights from research and development in Germany since 1945.
I'll revisit the Main Deutsches Museum, and its 2 branches in Munich some day(s) after the Pre-study course. Will be sure to take more interesting photos and share them here, and probably add in some details for each photo too. Stay tune!!!
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