The German Museum of Technology, Berlin

The German Museum of Technology, Berlin

Want to know the reason behind the sky being blue or perhaps the grass being green then you should head to the German Museum of Technology which has become a technological museum of international repute since its inception in 1982. The museum has strengthened the legacy of various technical museums that the city has been housing since the outbreak of the First World War. The museum is going through a kind of development in phases and once complete it will become one of the largest technical museums in the world.

The museum mainly highlights the rail transport and other forms of industrial technology and it has recently added maritime and aviation exhibition halls. The museum houses some fourteen departments each storing jewels in their own rights, the collection ranges from locomotives to printing presses and much more. As the saying goes from safety pins to aero planes everything is explained in details.

The best part of the museum is that it demystifies the difficult scientific terms and the machines so that everybody can really understand how they function. There are over two hundred and fifty experiments explaining the workings of different things like acoustics, optics, electricity, thermodynamics, radioactivity, etc. playfully demonstrate the fundamentals of science and technology.

If you are really overworked with all machines then you can relax at the museum park which houses some rare plants and animals that can fascinate anyone from a kid to a full grown man. However there are other things to watch out for outside like the windmill dating to 1820, Dutch windmill dating to 1911.There is a historical brewery that can explain the way brewing was done some hundred years to so ago.

In recent years the museum has added a special exhibition featuring the works of Konrad Zuse who did pioneering work in computers.

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