Designpanoptikum, Surreal industrial objects museum in Nikolaiviertel, Berlin, Germany.
Designpanoptikum is a museum in Berlin-Mitte that displays thousands of industrial objects, medical instruments, and mechanical devices arranged in unconventional ways throughout interconnected rooms. The exhibition feels like a walkable archive where every corner holds items from different periods of industrial history.
The museum was founded in 2010 by Vlad Korneev after he discovered a similar concept at a shop-museum in Schwerin. Its relocation from Torstraße to Poststraße in 2017 allowed the collection to grow and be reorganized in a new way.
The space functions as a cabinet of technology, where objects from medicine, film, sports, and aviation stand side by side without labels to guide you. Visitors experience how different industrial fields have shaped the way we work and live.
The museum is located at Poststraße 7 in Berlin-Mitte near Nikolaikirche and allows visitors to touch the exhibits while exploring. The dim lighting throughout the rooms is intentional, so give yourself time to adjust your eyes and look carefully at what surrounds you.
The collection includes rare Zeiss Ikon film projectors, an actual Martin-Baker ejection seat, and Maquet operating tables arranged in surreal compositions. These valuable objects from aviation and medical technology tell stories of innovation but are deliberately presented without explanatory labels.
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