SEP Munich, Germany – Deutsches Museum – Day 11 – 15.05.2011

It’s International Museum Day today! We heard that “all” museum will be free for entrance today, so why not a trip to museum?

After some route planning (it’s a long story), we have selected one of the most representing museums in Munich: The Deutsches Museum.

Some background info: The full name of Deutsches Museum is German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology, being the largest museum of science and technology in the world, it exhibits about 28000 objects from 50 fields of science and technology, and is attracting approximately 1.5 million visitors annually! (Wikipedia – Deutsches Museum)

I remembered it’s situated in Isartor, so we headed there, but lost our way! Anyway losing ways always open doors for explorations.

An unknown church in Isartor, not opened for visit that day.

The monument of Maximilian II: One of the King of Bavaria.

After walking around for some moment we tried to ask for direction. When we approached two quite promising guys with “Entschuldigung” (“Excuse me” in German), they were stunned and kept saying “Oh we don’t know, we don’t know.” and pointing the map on their hands. Anyway, we managed to find the way to Deutsches Museum but:

It’s International Museum Day!

So a long queue. The museum is on the right side.

Getting closer to it.

But wait why a queue? Do they have to do some traffic control to prevent overcrowded situation? No, all of us were queuing for ticket. (Later I knew that not all but most museums will have free entrance on that day, and unfortunately a ticket is required here.

It’s stated that photography is allowed but no photo shall be uploaded to the internet, so I’ll minimize it here.

We were attracted by a loud bang after entering the museum. Thought it’s some terrorist attacks but it’s actually this:

I don’t know what this device is called, but the bang is from this device. There was a demonstration there about generating electricity. When enough charges are gathered on each sphere and sufficient potential difference is achieved to break the air insulation, the charges will jump from one sphere to another, somewhat like the thunder too.

So this is how T. Edison looked like.

Next Room: Siemens Room

Again there is this unknown thing there…

Next Room: Aircraft Room

One of the exhibited turbines.

Next Room: Train Room

Models of train~

A giant model of track. The real track is located around the Bavarian Alps, South of Germany.

Next Room: Unknown

Cassette tape library. I’ve no idea on how it works though.

Next Room: Old-Days Products

The traditional wooden radios!

Typewriter? No, it’s a mechanical calculator.

Old-days soaps.

Next Don’t Know How Many Rooms

A bicycle photo. In hologram though. XD

Very finely made glass with high transparency.

Then we went through a series of physics lab with a bunch of hand-on experiments for us to play with. We tried here and tried there until we were tired to try anymore…

The ships room.

We were too tired at this point and thus we called it a day. I believe we didn’t even finish exploring half of the museum! Maybe next time, when we suddenly wants to finish it.