Deutsches Museum

The Deutsches Museum in Munich is one of the world’s largest science and technology museums, featuring 20 permanent exhibitions across 20,000 square meters. Visitors can engage with interactive stations, experiments, and unique exhibits covering topics from atomic physics to robotics, health, and agriculture. The museum also houses a library, archive, and research institute, making it a hub for both education and innovation. It’s an ideal destination for families, students, and science enthusiasts of all ages.

Planning your visit

The Deutsches Museum is among the largest science and technology museums in the world, and its ambition is the whole of applied science: twenty permanent exhibitions across 20,000 square metres covering everything from mining and metallurgy to aeronautics, atomic physics, robotics, pharmaceuticals and agriculture. Founded in 1903 on an island in the Isar, it pioneered the idea that visitors should operate things rather than read about them, and the interactive stations, demonstrations and live experiments still define it — the high-voltage lightning demonstration in the electrical hall is a scheduled event worth timing around.

Genuine artefacts anchor it: an early Benz, U-boat U 1 cut open, the workbench on which Otto Hahn split the uranium atom, aircraft hung overhead, and a full reconstructed mine running beneath the building.

The museum has been undergoing a lengthy phased modernisation, so some sections may be closed and the layout has changed — checking which exhibitions are currently open before visiting avoids disappointment if you have come for something specific. Even partially open, a day is not excessive.

Bookable options include entry tickets, guided tours with entry included, and private walking tours of Munich that incorporate the museum. Guided formats help with a building large enough that unstructured wandering wastes time. Current availability is shown below.