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Press releases
2024
November 27
Deutschlandmuseum: Germany‘s most popular museum and 2nd place at the German Tourism Award
Quick Facts
- Germany‘s most popular museum in 2024 (survey by the German National Tourist Board)
- World‘s best themed museum (THEA Award 2024)
- Europe‘s leading new tourist attraction (Word Travel Awards 2024)
- Opened: 17 June 2023
- An immersive and interactive visitor experience
- 2,000 years of German history
- 12 rooms with detailed recreations of historical settings and spectacular effects
- 1,400 m² exhibition space
- Visiting time: 1h– 1.5h
- Exciting for families and children
- Sister museum to the German Spy Museum
Address
Deutschlandmuseum
Leipziger Platz 7
10117 Berlin-Mitte
Opening hours
Open daily:
even on holidays
10-20 h
365 days a year
Point of view
In 2023 saw the curators of the Deutschlandmuseum present a completely new type of museum to Berlin: crossing a museum with a theme park, they have succeed
Press photos
The Germanic Peoples – 9 A.D.
The first immersive museum space is a recreation of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
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The Germanic Peoples – 9 A.D.
Interactive stations enable visitors to explore the world of the Romans and the Germanic peoples.
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Early Middle Ages - 955
The second area tells the story of the development of the Frankish Empire and the founding of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
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Early Middle Ages - 955
An animated map table with elaborate inlays and carvings shows the development of Europe.
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The High Middle Ages – 1212
The view out of the castle window shows both the sunny and dark sides of the age. Interactive installations let visitors slip into a number of roles, including that of a minstrel.
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The Reformation – 1517
A 16th century printing workshop tells the story of the Reformation. Highlight: an interactive Gutenberg printing press.
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The Reformation – 1517
The visitor learns about the horrors of the 30 Years’ War in a lead glass workshop.
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The Enlightenment – 1740
The light of the Enlightenment fills the fifth room, which presents the leading minds of the »Age of Reason«.
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The Enlightenment – 1740
Climb on Kant’s head and see the world from his perspective.
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The German Confederation – 1848
The end of Napoleon, the Vormärz and Biedermeier periods, the 1848 revolutions, student fraternities, German particularism and the Wars of Unification: the long nineteenth century fills the sixth room of the museum.
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The German Confederation – 1848
The differences between Greater and Lesser Germany and the various confederations can be seen on the mechanical map table.
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Imperial Germany – 1914
The recreation of a trench from the Western Front recalls the horrors of the First World War.
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Imperial Germany – 1914
Look through a trench periscope to see a realistic large-format projection of the devastation wrought on no-man’s-land on the Western Front.
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The Weimar Republic – 1926
The glamour and seediness of the »Roaring Twenties« are brought to life in a reproduction of a shopping arcade complete with original products.
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The Weimar Republic – 1926
Swing-dancing holograms and an interactive murder mystery lend drama to the experience.
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The Third Reich – 1933
An emotion-laden simulation in the ninth room conjures up the oppressive atmosphere of the darkest period of German history.
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The Third Reich – 1933
Faceless silhouettes in the spotlight combined with sound installations show the danger of populism.
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The Division of Germany – 1945
A bombed-out flat provides a view of what came to be known as the »raisin bombers« taking part in the Berlin Airlift.
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The Division of Germany – 1945
A flat from the prosperous West German 1950s with a living room, kitchen and an animated panorama of the city lights.
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The two Germanies – 1972
The interactive showcases and the alternating projections of department stores from West and East Germany in the eleventh room bring to life the two states separated by the Iron Curtain.
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The two Germanies – 1972
The interactive television tower made from old tube televisions enables visitors to experience the media landscape in East and West.
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German Reunification – 1990
In the twelfth and final room, visitors move through an S-Bahn viewing video clips of the euphoria of the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Love Parade and the wave of refugees in 2015.
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German Reunification – 1990
The realistically recreated S-Bahn with an old and a modern section takes visitors back to present-day Berlin.
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Deutschlandmuseum
Located directly on Leipziger Platz, in the middle of the former death strip, just a few metres from the German Spy Museum.
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Advertising motif
This graphic symbolizes the visitor’s embarkation on an immersive journey through 12 epochs.
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Collection
How did the lace
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