Editing German Museum of Technology

{{Short description|Museum in Berlin, Germany}}
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 |caption             = New building on [[Landwehr Canal]]
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 |established         = {{start date|1982}}
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 |location            = Trebbiner Straße&nbsp;9, [[Berlin]] ([[Kreuzberg]]), Germany
 |type                = {{ubl|[[Science museum]]|[[Technology museum]]}}
 |visitors            = 494,317 (2010)
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[[File:Douglas C-47B Raisin Bomber, German Museum of Technology.webm|thumb|View from the museum featuring the Raisin Bomber]]
'''{{lang|de|Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin}}''' (German Museum of Technology) in [[Berlin]], Germany is a [[museum]] of [[science museum|science]] and [[technology museum|technology]], and exhibits a large collection of historical technical artifacts. The museum's main emphasis originally was on rail transport, but today it also features exhibits of various sorts of industrial technology. In 2003, it opened both maritime and aviation exhibition halls in a newly built extension. The museum also contains a science center called Spectrum.

==History==
The Museum of Traffic and Technology (''{{lang|de|Museum für Verkehr und Technik}}'') was founded in 1982 and assumed the tradition of the Royal Museum of Traffic and Construction (''{{lang|de|Königliches Verkehrs- und Baumuseum}}'') which was opened in the former {{lang|de|[[Hamburger Bahnhof]]}} station building in 1906. The present-day museum is located on the former freight yard attached to the {{lang|de|[[Anhalter Bahnhof]]}} in the {{lang|de|[[Kreuzberg]]}} district of Berlin, including two historic [[Railway roundhouse|roundhouse]]s and several office buildings.

Renamed ''{{lang|de|Deutsches Technikmuseum}}'' in 1996, the exhibition area was gradually expanded. An adjacent new building complex was inaugurated in 2003, topped by a prominent US Air Force [[Douglas C-47 Skytrain|Douglas C-47B]] "[[Raisin Bombers|Raisin Bomber]]", which can be seen with ease from the top of the {{lang|de|[[Fernsehturm Berlin|Fernsehturm]]}} and formerly at the [[Tempelhof Airport]].

==Collections==

=== Locomotives ===

[[File:Henschel-BBC DE2500 202-003.jpg|thumb|Henschel-BBC DE2500 202-003]]

An extensive railway collection opened in 1987/88 in the rebuilt 19th century roundhouses of the Anhalter Bahnhof locomotive depot (''{{lang|de|[[Bahnbetriebswerk]]}}'') that had lain derelict for about 30 years. The 33 tracks illustrate the [[history of rail transport]], including the [[deportation]]s of Jews and others by the ''{{lang|de|[[Deutsche Reichsbahn]]}}'' in [[The Holocaust]]. The exhibition also features a [[H0 scale]] model of the {{lang|de|Anhalter Bahnhof}} track installations.

Locomotives on display include:

==== Steam ====
[[File:DRB Class 50 cab, German Museum of Technology.webm|thumb|thumbtime=2|Inside the driver's cab of the 50&nbsp;001]]
* 17 008, a [[Prussian S 10]], which has been sectioned.
* 50 001 of [[DRB Class 50]]

==== Other ====

* E 19 01, one of four members of [[DRG Class E 19]] (1938)
* 118 075 of [[DR Class V 180]]
* V 200 018, of [[DB Class V 200]] (1957)
* 202 {{nat|003-0}}, one of three [[Henschel-BBC DE2500]] prototypes (1971 or 1974)

=== Aircraft ===

A large aviation section beside the C-47 houses numerous aircraft from the single {{lang|de|[[Etrich Taube|Jeannin Stahltaube]]}} to a ''Lufthansa'' [[Junkers Ju 52]] (Spanish aircraft built by CASA under license) and an [[Arado Ar 79]]. The museum addresses the flight enthusiasm of the early 20th century and its abuse in the [[German re-armament]] building up the ''[[Luftwaffe]]'', documented by an [[Arado Ar 96]], a wrecked [[Junkers Ju 87]] ''Stuka'' [[dive bomber]] and the current restoration of a [[Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor]] as well as by one of three preserved [[Messerschmitt Bf 110]], a [[Flak cannon]], and a [[V-1 flying bomb]] built by [[Mittelbau-Dora]] [[Nazi concentration camps|concentration camp]] inmates at the [[Mittelwerk]] site. Post-war aircraft including a [[VFW-Fokker 614]] and the [[Cessna 172]]P that [[Mathias Rust]] flew to the Moscow [[Red Square]] during the [[Cold War]] have also been added to the exhibition.<ref>[http://jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6738463&nseq=1 Reims Cessna F172P, D-ECJB, in the Deutsches Technikmuseum, 2009] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722065932/http://jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6738463&nseq=1 |date=22 July 2011 }}.</ref>

The remains of [[Avro Lancaster]] B III ''JA914'' are displayed. This aircraft served with [[No. 57 Squadron RAF|57 Squadron]] as DX-O. It was shot down over Berlin in September 1943 and crashed into a lake opposite [[Zahrensdorf]].

=== Computers ===

[[File:Zuse Z1-2.jpg|thumb|Zuse Z1 replica]]

On 15 May 2002, a special exhibition opened which featured the inventions of [[computer]] pioneer [[Konrad Zuse]], including a replica of the [[Z1 (computer)|Z1]] and several other Zuse computers.

<gallery>
File:Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin February 2008 0013.JPG|[[Punched card]]s in use in a [[Jacquard loom]].
</gallery>

== Buildings ==
[[File:Water wheel at the German Museum of Technology.webm|thumb|thumbtime=32|Water wheel]]
The museum has two [[windmill]]s (one German, one Dutch), a [[brewery]], and a forge powered by a [[water wheel]].

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|German Museum of Technology Berlin}}
* [https://technikmuseum.berlin/en/ Museum website]
* [http://www.dtmb.de/Spectrum/index_en.html Spectrum: the Science Center]

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[[Category:Technology museums in Germany]]
[[Category:Aerospace museums in Germany]]
[[Category:Maritime museums in Germany]]
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[[Category:Railway museums in Germany]]
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[[Category:Museums in Berlin]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg]]