Deutsches Museum

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The Deutsches Museum is one of the world's largest museums of technology and science. It is based in Munich. There are about 1.3 million visitors each year.

The museum has two branches in and near Munich and one in Bonn. It was founded on June 28, 1903, at a meeting of the German Association of Engineers as an initiative of Oskar von Miller.

It was called: "German Society of the Museum for Masterpieces of Natural Science and Technology".

However it did take until 1925 when the main museum building on an island in the Isar river was opened – the island formerly known as Kohleinsel (coal island) was then renamed to Museumsinsel (museum island).

The two branches near Munich are:

• The Flugwerft Schleißheim (a former airport), now an aircraft museum.
• Since 2003, the Verkehrszentrum which documents the development in transportation. It is located on the old area of the Messegelände (exhibition center) in Munich.

See also

• Images from the Deutsches Museum collection (captions in German)

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External links

• Deutsches Museum
• Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleißheim
• Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum
• Deutsches Museum Bonn

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