An Engineer's Wet Dream

If you’re looking for techno cool, it doesn’t get better than the Deutsches Museum, the largest science and technology museum in the world. The main building on “Museum Island” in the middle of the Isar river has more than 55,000 Sq meters of exhibition space, and that doesn’t include newer additions like the Transportation and Air-space museum. There are more than 100,000 objects on exhibit in the areas of science, Materials and Production, Energy, Transport, Communication and information, and the Children’s Museum. Exhibits include objects from mining to atomic physics, from the Altamira cave to a magnified model of a human cell. They extend from the Stone Age to the present time. Collecting historically significant objects is still one of the Museum’s central tasks, so that the stock is constantly growing. Among the particular highlights are the first motorized aircraft built by the Wright brothers, the U1 submarine, the first program-controlled computer (Conrad Zuse’s Z3), and Diesel’s original engine on the island; the first motorcar by Karl Benz in the transport museum; and the Douglas DC3 at Schleißheim. (Thank you guest photographer, and yes I’m still taking a break from Octoberfest. J)