image author: Gisela Pape

Address: Trebbiner Str. 9
10963 Berlin - Kreuzberg
+49 (30) 25 48 40

Transport Links:

S1, S2 Anhalter Bahnhof
U2, U15 Gleisdreieck, U7, U15 Möckernbrücke
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Opening Times:
Tues-Fri 9am-5.30pm
Sat, Sun 10am-6pm

German Technique Museum Berlin
Since 1982 a comprehensive technique museum of international standing has been built in the old and new centre of Berlin: the Deutsche Technikmuseum Berlin (former Museum of Transport and Technique). Technical culture-history in historical buildings. It continues the tradition of famous technique museums, which were domiciled in Berlin until the 2nd World War. The location of the track triangle is historically important: Here was the Anhalter depot situated, the railway engineering depot with two locomotive engine houses and the factory building of the Gesellschaft für Markt- und Kühlhallen (society of market and cold stores). This historical building ensemble is at the same time the most valuable 'object' of the Berlin museums. When all the expansion phases are completed the house will have an exhibition area of over 50.000sqm and will belong to the world's largest technique museums. Old and new technique to experience and comprehend. Right now 14 sections present themselves at around 14.000sqm only a quarter of its treasures: Vintage cars, locomotives and airplanes, ships and water-building model, looms, household and tool machines, computer, radios and cameras, diesel engines, steam engines, scientific instruments, paper machines, printing presses and much more. In nearly every section presentations and activities are taking place. Several historical machines and models are being shown in action and explained. The visitors are able to print, weave, dipping paper, grinding grain, work at computers or test themselves as news reader at the TV studio.

Nature Oasis Museum Park
The extensive museum park with rare plants and animals invite exciting expeditions. At the functional post-mill (1820) or the smock-mill (1911) millers describe the old trade. At the mill pond a undershot water wheel operates a historical forge. At the historical brewery one gets to know everything about the level of brew technique around 1910. An integrated guide system enables also blind or visually impaired people to visit the park. 'Why is the sky blue?' These and many more questions are being answered at the Science Centre SPECTRUM (entrance Möckernstr. 26). Over 250 experiments about the phenomenon acoustic, optical, electricity, thermodynamics, radioactivity, etc. make the basis of science and technique easy to understand. The Foucault's pendulum in the entrance hall proves to the visitor that the earth is turning. As a futuristic new museum of international standing is being built right now, the German Technique Museum Berlin. On the 12th of May 1999, the anniversary of the end of the Berlin Airlift, the topping out ceremony was held in the presence of Mayor Eberhard Diepgen.

On an 6.000sqm exhibition area, the exhibitions about shipping and aviation were opened in December 2000. In addition, the extensive historical archive and the library with around 400.000 volumes as well as the large museum restaurant are available to the public. The townscape coining four-floor building with a total ultility area of 20.000sqm is the work of the Berlin architects Helge Pitz and Ulrich Wolff. Diagonally opposite the Potsdamer Platz, it forms with its unique, functional architecture the outstanding highlight of the technical culture-forum at the track triangle. The eye-catcher, that can seen from afar is a candy bomber of the type C47 'Skytrain' which hangs on the facade. This plane is an original permanent monument, as a thank you to the Western Allied Forces, by the Berlin citizens for the airlifts during the Soviet Berlin Blockade in 1948/1949)