Deutsches Museum
World's largest science and technology museum, with hands-on exhibits across an island campus.
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This guide to the Deutsches Museum in Munich follows Oskar von Miller, the engineer who spent three decades chasing one idea: a museum where visitors could push buttons and pull levers instead of just looking through glass. It traces his campaign to recruit Max Planck and Wilhelm Roentgen, the 1925 opening timed to his own birthday, and his death here in 1934. You'll hear what happened to the collection during the bombing raids of World War Two. Look up at the soaring halls that staff once guarded through the night.
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