Sachsen-Anhalt/Saxony-Anhalt

Bitterfeld-Wolfen:

Industrie- und Filmmuseum Wolfen

Here you can see how normal films for cameras were made and you also learn about the history of photography. www.ifm-wolfen.de

Dessau-Roßlau:

Technikmuseum Hugo Junkers

Here you can learn about the airplanes designed by Hugo Junkers and see an old Junkers JU 52 that sunk on the Norway coast near Narvik in WW2. www.technikmuseum-dessau.de

Magdeburg:

Technikmuseum Magdeburg

Here in the museum you can see many small and large exhibits. You learn something about farming, industry, handcraft, and others. www.technikmuseum-magdeburg.de

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Anklam:

Otto-Lilienthal-Museum

Here you can learn a lot about Otto Lilienthal’s first flights and his flying machines. He was the one who inspired the Wright brothers. www.lilienthal-museum.de

Peenemünde:

Historisch-Technisches Informationszentrum

From 1936 to 1945 the Military Test Site in Peenemünde was an ultramodern technology facility. Here missiles and other flight objects were developed. www.peenemuende.de

Rostock:

Schiffbau- und Schifffahrtsmuseum

Here you can learn all about East German ship building, from Slavic log-boats to modern cargo ships. www.schifffahrtsmuseum-rostock.de

Schwerin:

Mecklenburgisches Eisenbahn- und Technikmuseum

Here you can see old steam engines, diesel engines, railway carriages and much more. www.mef-schwerin.de.vu

Stralsund:

Deusches Meeresmuseum

Here you find oceanlike aquariums with more than 7,000 animals and in the Nautineum you can also learn about fishing, shipbuilding and oceanography. You can as well visit the outpost at Darsser Ort called Natureum. www.meeresmuseum.de

Berlin

Berlin:

Museum im Wasserwerk

Here you can learn about the history of water supply in Berlin. The museum is located the old waterworks of Friedrichshagen. www.museum-im-wasserwerk.de

Deutsches Technikmuseum

In the museum you can learn about the cultural history of technology. A broad spectrum of old and new technology is presented. www.sdtb.de

Baden-Württemberg

Friedrichshafen:

Zeppelin-Museum

The Zeppelin-Museum is home for the world’s greatest collection of the history of aviation. Besides the technical collection you will also find a large art collection of the Lake Constance region. www.zeppelin-museum.de

Furtwangen:

Deutsches Uhrenmuseum

In the museum with about 2,500 exhibits you can learn about the long tradition of clock-making in the Black Forest. www.deutsches-uhrenmuseum.de

Mannheim:

Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit

Here you can learn more about the industrialisation of the country and how scientific experiments can lead to technical inventions. www.landesmuseum-mannheim.de

Sinsheim:

Auto- und Technik-Museum

From the Concorde to locomotives, vintage cars and racing cars you can find about everything here. A visit is really worth it. www.technik-museum.de

Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen:

Porsche Museum

Here you can see 80 Porsche cars and experience the history of Porsche. www.porsche.com

Lower Saxony

Brunswick:

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)

The PTB is he national metrology institute and stands for reliability in metrology. It was founded in 1887. www.ptb.de

Bückeburg:

Hubschraubermuseum

In the Helicopter Museum more than 40 helicopters are shown as well as engines and gear mechanisms. www.hubschraubermuseum.de

Clausthal-Zellerfeld:

Oberharzer Bergwerkmuseum

Here you can learn about ore mining from mediaeval times to the end of the 19th century. www.oberharzerbergwerksmuseum.de

Gifhorn:

Internationales Wind- und Wassermühlen-Museum

In the museum you find more than 15 wind- and water-mills from 12 different countries. It is unique in Europe. www.muehlenmuseum.de

Goslar:

Rammelsberg Museum & Besucherbergwerk

The old ore mines, with a tradition of more than 1000 years of ore mining, now are a museum. The Rammelsberg mines and the historic town of Goslar were placed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO in 1992. They are a cultural heritage for all humanity. www.rammelsberg.de

Lüneburg:

Deutsches Salzmuseum

After the salt-mine was closed in 1980 it was transformed into a museum. www.salzmuseum.de

Wolfsburg:

Autostadt Wolfsburg

In the largest car delivery centre in the world you find lots of interesting information for adults and children. www.autostadt.de

Rhineland-Palatinate  (RLP)

Germersheim:

Deutsches Straßenmuseum

In this museum you can learn a lot about the history of road construction. www.deutsches-strassemuseum.de

Imsbach:

Bergbau Erlebnis Welt

In the two mines “Grube Maria” and “Weisse Grube” visitors get information on the mining products and their use. www.bergbauerlebniswelt-imsbach.de

Ludwigshafen:

BASF

In the visitor centre of BASF you can experience the world of chemistry and find out why things are the way they are. http://besucherzentrum.basf.de

Mainz:

Gutenberg-Museum

The museum founded in 1900 is one of the oldest printing museums in the world. It presents Johannes Gutenberg’s technical and artistic achievements to the visitors. www.gutenberg-museum.de

Oppenheim am Rhein:

Deutsches Weinbaumuseum

In the winegrowing museum you get information on the winegrowing from mediaeval times up to now. You can see old tractors as well as old wine casks and bottles. Even wine that is more than 300 years old you can see. www.dwb-museum.de

Pirmasens:

Dynamikum

Here you can learn interesting things about nature, technology and movement and even try things yourself. www.dynamikum.de

Saarland

Beckingen-Düppenweiler:

Kupferbergwerk

“Mystallica” tries to build a bridge from traditional mining to recreational activities for tourists and entertainment with the help of light and sound effects. www.dueppenweiler.de/Kupferbergwerk/Kupferbergwerk.htm

Bexbach:

Saarländisches Bergbaumuseum

Here you can see mining technology and history amidst a great park with beautiful flowers. www.saarl-bergbaumuseum-bexbach.de

In the Zoologisches Museum in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein you can visit a whale exhibition.

You can learn about the evolution and the physique of whales. Or did you know that a cow is closer related to a whale than to a horse? And that whales were animals, that once lived on land but went back into the sea.

In the exhibition you also get to know about the sounds whales make and about their hearing system.
Of course there are also fascinating skeletons of different whales to be seen.

Whale © kohane/flickr.com

Hesse

Fulda:

Kinder-Akademie
In this museum children can learn a lot about natural science and even walk through the model of a huge human heart. www.kaf.de

Gießen:

Liebig-Museum

In the Liebig-Museum you can see how chemical research work was done 150 years ago and experience the world of Justus Liebig. www.liebig-museum.de

Mathematikum

Here you can experience mathematics with stunning puzzles and mysterious bubbles. www.mathematikum.de

Hünfeld:

Konrad-Zuse-Museum

Konrad Zuse built the Z1 computer and lived in Hünfeld from 1957 to his death in 1995. www.zuse-museum-huenfeld.de

Wetzlar:

Viseum

A laser beam is guiding you through the world of light and you can experience the world of optics. www.viseum-wetzlar.de

Bremen:

Heinrich Fockes Windkanal

The Focke Wind Tunnel was finished in 1963. From 1998 to 2003 it was completely restored and is now working again. www.focke-windkanal.de

Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum

In the German Maritime Museum you find a lot about medieval shipping, shipping in the early modern age, fishing and whaling, oceanography and naval research. www.dsm.museum

Universum

The Universum has three different parts. “In the Science Center” and the “Entdecker-Park” you find lots of information about mankind, earth, cosmos, movement and wind and weather. In the “Schau-Box” there are exhibitions on different subjects. www.universum-bremen.de

Hamburg:

Airbus Deutschland

On a guided tour you will learn everything about how an airplane is built. www.airbus-werksfuehrung.de

Maritimes Museum

Here you can find ship models, construction plans, paintings, photos and uniforms. www.internationales-maritimes-museum.de

Miniatur Wunderland

Here you can see the largest model train exhibition in the world. The Miniatur Wunderland grows steadily. www.miniatur-wunderland.de

Museum der Arbeit

In the Museum der Arbeit you will learn how life and work have changed during the last 150 years and what influence the industrialisation had on our lives. www.museum-der-arbeit.de

The “Klimahaus Bremerhaven 8° Ost“ can give you amongst others an answer on the question about why weather is the way it is.

Visitors can travel through nine different climatic regions of the earth and learn about the physics of the climate with the help of interactive displays in the exhibition area called “The Elements”.

There are three further exhibition areas called “The Journey”, “Perspectives” and “Opportunities”. Visitors can learn about the climate from the beginning of time to the future. What you see and experience in the Klimahaus Bremerhaven, certainly is unique and the information really is sound.

With a few exceptions all areas in the Klimahaus Bremerhaven are barrier-free. Access is possible to people with mobility difficulties as well as to visitors with prams. There are lifts, ramps and alternate route directions for those visitors in wheelchairs. If you need a wheelchair for loan it would be wise to book it in advance.

Food and drink you can either get in the café “südwärts” or in the restaurant “Längengrad”. So why not find out why the weather and climate are the way they are, especially when the weather happens to be not so good and you are looking for something interesting to do indoors.

The opening hours are as follows:

• November to March: Mon-Sun: 10 am – 6 pm
• April to October: Mon-Fri: 9 am – 7 pm, Sat-Sun: 10 am – 7 pm