Deutsches Museum

The Deutsches Museum is one of the world's largest museums of technology and science. It is based in Munich. There are about 1.3 million visitors each year.

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Museum - Technology - Science - Munich

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The museum has two branches in and near Munich and one in Bonn. It was founded on June 28, 1903, at a meeting of the German Association of Engineers as an initiative of Oskar von Miller.

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Bonn - June 28 - 1903 - German Association of Engineers - Oskar von Miller

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It was called: "German Society of the Museum for Masterpieces of Natural Science and Technology".

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However it did take until 1925 when the main museum building on an island in the Isar river was opened - the island formerly known as Kohleinsel (coal island) was then renamed to Museumsinsel (museum island).

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1925 - Isar

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The two branches near Munich are

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• The Flugwerft Schleißheim (a former dockyard for airplanes), now an aircraft museum
• Since 2003, the Verkehrszentrum which documents the development in transportation. It is located on the old area of the Messegelände (exhibition center) in Munich.
 
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