PhanTECHNIKUM, Technology museum in Wismar, Germany

PhanTECHNIKUM is a technology museum in Wismar displaying working steam engines, motors, and mechanical inventions. The collection spans multiple buildings and showcases functioning machines along with models from different periods of technical history.

The Technisches Landesmuseum Mecklenburg-Vorpommern was housed until 2011 in the former Marstall, the ducal carriage house in Schwerin. It then moved to Wismar, into buildings of former military barracks near the Bürgerpark. The exhibition presents the technical history of Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania, and special shows draw on objects kept in the museum depot together with loans from Germany and abroad.

The name reflects a playful take on fantastic technology, emphasizing hands-on learning as a core value. Visitors experience how people engage with everyday physics through direct participation in working models and machines.

The museum sits in central Wismar and includes areas where visitors can operate machines themselves. Plan enough time to try out different stations, as the experience centers on hands-on interaction with working equipment.

The aviation exhibit is a reconstruction of the Heinkel He 178, the world's first aircraft to fly under turbojet power, which took off in 1939. Visitors often mistake it for a wartime fighter; it is a replica of an experimental test machine, not a production aircraft.