German Museum of Technology, Technology museum in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
The German Museum of Technology is a large museum dedicated to technical and industrial history in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. Collections range from trains and aircraft to computers and printing presses, spread across several buildings around a former railway site.
An earlier predecessor was founded in 1906 as a royal museum, closed during World War II. After the city's division, the current museum opened in 1982 on a disused freight yard in Kreuzberg.
The Douglas C-47B on the roof is nicknamed the "Raisin Bomber", a nod to the candy parachuted to West Berlin children during the 1948-49 Airlift. It was mounted on 8 May 1999 and has been the museum's landmark since. The aviation hall beside it traces early flight enthusiasm and its use in German rearmament.
The site covers 26,500 square metres across the former Anhalter Bahnhof freight yard, with the entrance on Trebbiner Straße near the Gleisdreieck U-Bahn station. The railway halls, the roundhouses and the outdoor tracks are in separate buildings, so allow several hours and wear clothing suited to the weather.
A complete historic train set stands on outdoor tracks that visitors can walk around. In a separate building, a working 19th-century brewery occasionally hosts demonstrations.
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