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Deutsches Museum
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museum of science and technology in Munich, Germany
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The Deutsches Museum, also known as the German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology, is an active institution located in Munich, Germany. It functions as both an archive and a funder. The museum was established in 1903 and officially opened on November 12, 1906.
The institution receives approximately 1,531,646 visitors annually. It maintains an online presence with a website and a digital catalog, and it has 40,700 social media followers. The museum is referenced by 603 other encyclopedia articles.
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Key facts
- Established
- 28 June 1903 ( 1903-06-28 )
- Location
- Museumsinsel 1 80538 München Germany
- Type
- Science museum Technology museum
- Collection size
- 125,000
- Visitors
- 1.5 million
- Website
- www .deutsches-museum .de /en /
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Archive, Funder
- Founded
- 1903
- Location
- Munich, Germany
- Also known as
- Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik, German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.424220.2 · ISNI 0000 0004 0492 4948
Described at
Deutsches Museum - Museen in Bayern
Von der Atomphysik bis zur Luft- und Raumfahrt, von der Chemie bis zum Brücken- und Wasserbau, von den Musikinstrumenten bis hin zur Gesundheit – Die thematische Bandbreite im Deutschen Museum in…
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- science museum
- Named after
- Germany
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt
- Founded by
- Oskar von Miller
- Parent organization
- Leibniz Association
- Industry
- creative industries
- Official website
- www.deutsches-museum.de/en
- Image
- Deutsches Museum Portrait 4.jpg
Show 22 more facts
- online catalog URL
- digital.deutsches-museum.de
- hashtag
- deutschesmuseum
- Commons category
- Deutsches Museum
- Commons gallery
- Deutsches Museum
- inception
- 1903-06-28
- visitors per year
- 1531646
- Commons Institution page
- Deutsches Museum
- topic's main category
- Category:Deutsches Museum
- street address
- Museumsinsel 1, 80538 München
- social media followers
- 40700
- native label
- Deutsches Museum
- phone number
- +49-89-21791
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- fax number
- +49-89-2179324
- terms of service URL
- codingdavinci.de/daten/#deutsches-museum
- P6482
- Deutsches Museum
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- directions
- Auf der Museumsinsel
- date of official opening
- 1906-11-12
- official jobs URL
- www.deutsches-museum.de/museum/ueber-uns/karriere
- described at URL
- museen-in-bayern.de/museen/detailseite-museum/deutsches-museum
- catalog code
- DEBYLT02FD
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Encyclopedic overview
The Deutsches Museum (German Museum, officially Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik (English: German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology)) in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of science and technology, with about 125,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology. It receives about 1.5 million visitors per year.
The museum was founded on 28 June 1903, at a meeting of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) as an initiative of Oskar von Miller. It is the largest museum in Munich. For a period of time the museum was also used to host pop and rock concerts including The Who, Jimi Hendrix and Elton John.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Deutsches Museum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.