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Quick Facts
- Winner of the THEA Award for Outstanding Achievement (as the first German museum)
- Opening: June 17, 2023
- Immersive and interactive experience museum
- 2,000 years of German history
- 12 elaborately designed rooms, real built
sceneries and spectacular effects - 1,400 square meters of exhibition space
- Visiting time 1h-1.5h
- Exciting for families and children
- Sister museum of the German Spy Museum
Address
Deutschlandmuseum
Leipziger Platz 7
10117 Berlin-Mitte
Opening hours
Open Daily
10-20 h
365 days a year
Point of view
“With the Deutschlandmuseum, a completely new museum concept was invented in Berlin this summer: The combination of museum and theme park design to make the history of Germany accessible to everyone!”
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The Germanic Peoples - Year 9
The forest of the Varus Battle forms the first immersive room in the museum.
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The Germanic Peoples - Year 9
Interactive stations allow visitors to explore the living environments of the Romans and Germanic tribes
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Early Middle Ages - 955
The second room tells the story of the development of the Frankish Empire and the founding of the Holy Roman Empire (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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High Middle Ages - 1212
Both the sunny and dark sides of the age can be observed through the castle windows. Interactive installations allow visitors to become minstrels, among other things.
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The Reformation - 1517
A 16th century book printing workshop tells the story of the Reformation. Highlight: an interactive Gutenberg printing press
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The Reformation - 1517
A lead glass workshop provides information about the horrors of the 30 Years’ War.
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The Enlightenment - 1740
The light of the Enlightenment characterizes the fifth room: the most important minds of the “Age of Reason” are presented
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The Enlightenment - 1740
Climb on Kant’s head and see the world from his perspective or dance around on his nose? That is the visitors’ decision.
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The German Confederation - 1848
The end of Napoleon, Vormärz, Biedermeier, revolution, student unions, patchwork quilt, unification wars: the long nineteenth century forms 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
In the seventh room, a trench gives an idea of the horrors of the First World War.
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Imperial Germany - 1914
A trench periscope with a photorealistic large-format projection provides an insight into the devastated no man’s land of the Western Front.
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Weimar Republic - 1926
The splendor and shadows of the “Golden Twenties” in a shopping gallery with extraordinary original exhibits can be found in the eighth room.
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Weimar Republic - 1926
Swing-dancing holographs and an interactive murder mystery are highlights of the room.
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The Third Reich - 1933
The darkest period of German history is presented as an emotional simulation in the oppressive ninth room.
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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 apartment provides a view of the raisin bombers during the Berlin Airlift.
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The Division of Germany - 1945
An economic miracle apartment with living room, kitchen and an animated panorama of the city lights.
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The Two Germanies- 1972
In the eleventh room, interactive showcases and an infinite department store present the German states separated by the Iron Curtain.
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The Two Germanies - 1972
The interactive television tower made from old tube sets allows visitors to experience the media landscape in East and West.
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The German Reunification - 1990
An S-Bahn with elaborate video clips leads through the twelfth and final room: from the euphoria of the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Love Parade and the wave of refugees in 2015.
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The German Reunification - 1990
The realistically recreated S-Bahn with an old and a new 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 meters from the German Spy Museum.
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Advertising motif
The motif symbolizes the immersive journey through time in 12 epochs.
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Any questions?
Your contact person:
Max Krüger
I will be happy to help you, just send me an e-mail!
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