Technische Sammlungen Dresden, Technology museum in Dresden, Germany

The Technische Sammlungen Dresden occupies a former factory building and displays cameras, calculating machines, printing machines, and other devices from different periods. The spaces are arranged so visitors can see the machines in working condition as well.

The Ernemann factory was built from 1898 on Schandauer Straße for merchant Heinrich Ernemann and expanded until 1938; architects Emil Högg and Richard Müller designed the reinforced-concrete new building in the sober style of the Deutscher Werkbund, linked by a bridge to the old factory. After 1945 VEB Pentacon made the Ernemann Tower the trademark of East German camera production. Industrial use ended with the company's liquidation in 1990, when the city of Dresden took over the listed building; the museum itself began in 1966 on 300 m² at Königstraße 15 and moved here in 1993.

The museum is housed in the Ernemannbau, the factory that merchant Heinrich Ernemann built on Schandauer Straße in 1898 and that became the landmark of Dresden camera making. The name Ernemann survives on the tower, where a museum café looks over the city and the Elbe valley. The collection also holds the former Museum für Photographie and the Pentacon company archive.

The museum occupies the former Ernemann camera factory on Schandauer Straße; the listed concrete building is entered via a bridge linking it to the older factory wing. The museum café sits in the Ernemann Tower, from where visitors look out over the city and the Elbe valley. The three open storage depots, including the typewriter collection of over 1,600 objects, are accessible by prior arrangement.

The museum preserves cameras that were manufactured in the same building where they are now displayed. These machines tell the story of how an idea from a design table became a product that people bought and used.