Technik-Museum Pütnitz, Technical museum in Ribnitz-Damgarten, Germany.
Technik-Museum Pütnitz is a technical museum housed in three halls of the former seaplane station on the shore of the Ribnitzer See, part of the Damgarten airfield built in 1935. It displays over 1000 exhibits, mostly military and civilian vehicles, aircraft and tracked technology manufactured and used in the Eastern Bloc. Smaller buildings hold exhibits from the Deutsche Reichsbahn.
The airfield was laid out in 1935 as a land and sea airbase, used by the Wehrmacht Luftwaffe and later by Soviet air forces, and closed in 1994. The museum opened in 2003 in three halls of the former seaplane station on the Ribnitzer See, run by the Technikverein Pütnitz association.
The exhibits show objects that shaped daily life: radios, televisions, toys, and household appliances tell the story of technology in East Germany and Eastern Europe. Visitors recognize their own past or learn how people lived with technology back then.
The site is best visited between May and October when additional activities are available. Visitors can drive Russian trucks on an outdoor course or operate amphibious vehicles.
Visitors can drive some of the vehicles themselves on the grounds: an Ikarus 280 articulated bus, a Ural-375D truck, a ZIL-135 truck and a Lada Niva. The museum also hosts the annual International Ostblock Vehicle Meeting, the International Maritime Vehicle Meeting since 2007 and the Pütnitz Pentecost Meeting since 2008.
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