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| Established | 1982 (1982) |
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| Location | Trebbiner Straße 9,Berlin (Kreuzberg), Germany |
| Coordinates | 52°29′55″N13°22′39″E / 52.49861°N 13.37750°E /52.49861; 13.37750 |
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| Visitors | 494,317 (2010) |
| Website | www |
Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin (German Museum of Technology) inBerlin, Germany is amuseum ofscience andtechnology, and exhibits a large collection of historical technical artifacts. The museum's main emphasis originally was on rail transport, but today it also features exhibits of various sorts of industrial technology. In 2003, it opened both maritime and aviation exhibition halls in a newly built extension. The museum also contains a science center called Spectrum.
The Museum of Traffic and Technology (Museum für Verkehr und Technik) was founded in 1982 and assumed the tradition of the Royal Museum of Traffic and Construction (Königliches Verkehrs- und Baumuseum) which was opened in the formerHamburger Bahnhof station building in 1906. The present-day museum is located on the former freight yard attached to theAnhalter Bahnhof in theKreuzberg district of Berlin, including two historicroundhouses and several office buildings.
RenamedDeutsches Technikmuseum in 1996, the exhibition area was gradually expanded. An adjacent new building complex was inaugurated in 2003, topped by a prominent US Air ForceDouglas C-47B "Raisin Bomber", which can be seen with ease from the top of theFernsehturm and formerly at theTempelhof Airport.
An extensive railway collection opened in 1987/88 in the rebuilt 19th century roundhouses of the Anhalter Bahnhof locomotive depot (Bahnbetriebswerk) that had lain derelict for about 30 years. The 33 tracks illustrate thehistory of rail transport, including thedeportations of Jews and others by theDeutsche Reichsbahn inThe Holocaust. The exhibition also features aH0 scale model of theAnhalter Bahnhof track installations.
Locomotives on display include:
A large aviation section beside the C-47 houses numerous aircraft from the singleJeannin Stahltaube to aLufthansaJunkers Ju 52 (Spanish aircraft built by CASA under license) and anArado Ar 79. The museum addresses the flight enthusiasm of the early 20th century and its abuse in theGerman re-armament building up theLuftwaffe, documented by anArado Ar 96, a wreckedJunkers Ju 87Stukadive bomber and the current restoration of aFocke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor as well as by one of three preservedMesserschmitt Bf 110, aFlak cannon, and aV-1 flying bomb built byMittelbau-Doraconcentration camp inmates at theMittelwerk site. Post-war aircraft including aVFW-Fokker 614 and theCessna 172P thatMathias Rust flew to the MoscowRed Square during theCold War have also been added to the exhibition.[1]
The remains ofAvro Lancaster B IIIJA914 are displayed. This aircraft served with57 Squadron as DX-O. It was shot down over Berlin in September 1943 and crashed into a lake oppositeZahrensdorf.
On 15 May 2002, a special exhibition opened which featured the inventions ofcomputer pioneerKonrad Zuse, including a replica of theZ1 and several other Zuse computers.
The museum has twowindmills (one German, one Dutch), abrewery, and a forge powered by awater wheel.
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