Deutsches Museum, Munich

The Technical Museum in Munich - Deutsches Museum, is the largest, oldest and most complete technical museum in the world. The full name of the museum is German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology. It was opened in Munich on May 7, 1906. Every year the museum welcomes over 1,500,000 people and is the proud owner of over 28,000 exhibits from the fields of science and technology. 
The main part of the Deutsches Museum is located on an island on the Isar River. In 1903, the city hall of Munich decided to provide the island free of charge for the construction of a museum in which important technical achievements would be exhibited. The construction of the museum began in 1906, when the first sod was made, and was completed only a few months later.
Over the years, the Deutsches Museum was constantly expanded, but after the bombing of Munich during the Second World War, it was almost completely destroyed. In 1950, the museum building was completely restored. 
The Deutsches Museum has over 28,000 exhibits from various fields of science - chemistry, physics, biology, machines, astronomy, energy, computers and many other scientific achievements. It has its own cinema, a huge library with more than 850,000 volumes of natural science and technology, with more than 95,000 research papers and with numerous archives and official documents.
The Deutsches Museum has 55 different departments, such as aeronautics, musical instruments, photography, physics, textiles, etc. Here you can see the first Siemens electric locomotive - 1879, the first German submarine from 1906, the workbench from the laboratory where the splitting of the atom was first carried out, the first Benz car from 1886 and luxury Bugatti and Daimler from the 1920s and 1930s, the Wright brothers' first airplanes made in 1909, as well as military aircraft from the 1930s and 1940s and etc.