Industrial & heritage museums in Berlin

The Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin (German Museum of Technology Berlin) is one of the largest engineering museums in the world, with an exhibition area of ​​approximately 50,000 m². The exhibition includes: vintage cars, airplanes, trains, ships, electromagnetic coils, coffers, jewelry, machines, co

The DDR Museum is an authentic and interactive museum devoted to the daily life in former East Germany (DDR). It is divided into three main areas: Public Life, State and Ideology, and Life in a Tower Block. You can see a typical DDR living room, try on usual DDR clothes, use an original typewriter o

The immersive history experience! Travel through 2000 years of German history: sneak round a castle, operate Gutenberg’s printing press, dance in the roaring 20s and see the ruins of Berlin after WW2. Finish in the 1990s on a Berlin S-Bahn. THEA Award Winner 2024

Who was the first spy? Did you know that drones were used in World War Two? Which secret service had the best codes? What is the difference between a honey-trap and the Romeo method? Who knows more about you – the Stasi, the NSA, Facebook or Miles and More? The German Spy Museum charts the history o

The Kunstgewerbemuseum is the Museum of Applied Art of Berlin. The headquarters is part of the Kulturforum Berlin and is part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The museum shows the development of arts and crafts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present. All style periods are represented with

The Museum chronicles the product culture of the 20th & 21st centuries, a culture marked by mass production & industrial manufacturing. At the core of our institution is the archive of the Deutsche Werkbund. Founded in 1907, this group of German artists, designers & manufacturers was one of the lead

The 1. Berliner DDR-Motorradmuseum (1st Berlin DDR Motorcycle Museum) is a museum for two-wheelers from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in Berlin, located under the S-Bahn arches at Alexanderplatz. More than 140 motorcycles, scooters and mopeds of the manufacturers MZ, Simson and IWL (almost th

The Feuerwehrmuseum Berlin is the fire brigade museum in Berlin that has been showing an exhibition on the history of the Berlin fire department (the largest and oldest professional fire brigade in Germany), since 1983. In the approximately 800 m² exhibition space, in addition to photo and video doc

The Gaslaternen Freilichtmuseum (The Gas Lantern Open Air Museum Berlin) in Berlin is a permanent exhibition of historic gas lanterns in the immediate vicinity of the Berlin S-Bahn station Tiergarten on the edge of the Great Tiergarten. Some gas lamps were dismantled and stored in the Museum of Tech

The Berliner U-Bahn Museum (Berlin Underground Museum) is housed in the electromechanical Hebelstellwerk Olympia Stadion, which was in operation from 1931 to 1983. The adjecent rooms of the signal box are exhibition rooms with numerous exhibits. In addition to occasional photo exhibitions, four to s

The Polizeihistorische Sammlung Berlin (Berlin Police History Collection) is located in Berlin's police headquarters uniforms, weapons and tools of the police and various killing instruments are exhibited.

The Monsterkabinett in Berlin is a place full of strange art and mechanical robot-monsters. It is an automated theater with the surreal creatures crated from various waste materials.