Our last day in Munich was spent at the Deutsches Museum/ German Museum, one of the most important museums of its kind in the world. It was opened in 1925 on a small island in the River Isar. It is devoted to illustrate advances in schience and technology, and has collections from mining, navigation, earonautics, astronomy, chemistry, engineering, astronautics and more. By now it is so big that part of the collection (trains and most planes) had to be moved to a different location outside Munich. One of the best museums we have ever been to!
From Friedrich Schiller's poem "The Diver"
Captain Lukas
The above shows what the inside of an ocean liner carrying immigrants to the US would have looked like.
They still have some airplanes in the museum, but most are in a different location in a suburb of Munich.
In this part of the museum they had all kinds of mills and drills.
Underground they have the mining exhibit, which carries you through all the different mines: silver, coal etc...
Yes, this is the real thing! I can't imagine how they got the real equipment under ground!
At the end of the exhibit it says "and in the beginning God created heaven and earth."
