What kind of work is done in a chemistry lab? The instruments on display illustrate various procedures such as the distillation, filtration, and extraction of chemical substances.
SDTB / C. Kirchner
Pills and pipettes
Unfortunately, the exhibition is currently closed. We ask for your understanding!
Drei Wandvitrinen zeigen viele verschiedene Objekte: Bücher, Werkzeuge und Matrizen.
SDTB / C. Kirchner
Printing technology
When a mutoscope (ca. 1900) is turned rapidly, it gives the viewer the impression of seeing a moving picture.
SDTB / U. Steinert
Film Technology
Unfortunately, the exhibition is currently closed. We ask for your understanding!
The first handheld cameras. The exhibition “The Fascination of the Moment” focuses on the development of photography.
SDTB / C. Kirchner
Photo technology
The heart of the brewery is the brewhouse, featuring a brewing kettle and lauter tun.
SDTB / C. Kirchner
Historic brewery
The Historic Brewery is only open for guided tours.
At the age of 26, engineer Konrad Zuse developed the world’s first computer in his parents’ living room, in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district. His aim was to automate tedious statics calculations.
SDTB / N. Michalke
Computer Science
The “Elektropolis Berlin” exhibition focuses on the transition to the Communication Age.
SDTB / C. Kirchner
Communications Engineering
The paper testing machine does not make individual pieces of paper but rather one long continuous sheet.
SDTB / C. Musiol
Paper Technology
At the jewelry table, individual jewelry parts are worked by hand. The steps include sawing, carving, drilling, filing, and soldering.
SDTB / C. Kirchner
Jewellery production
This 1928 Würker embroidery machine with three heads is controlled by a punch card. All three of its heads embroider the same pattern.
SDTB / C. Kirchner
Textile Technology
The Historical Machine Shop displays typical metalworking equipment from around 1900.
SDTB / C. Kirchner
Machine Tools
Holländermühle im Museumspark im Herbst. Die umliegenden Bäume sind leicht gelb und braun gefärbt.
SDTB / C. Kirchner
Wind energy in the museum park
Railroad vehicles are put on the right track by a turntable and brought into the Engine Shed, also called a roundhouse, through large gates.
SDTB / C. Kirchner
Railway
The Bücker Bü 131 was one of the first aerobatic planes. It is still one of the best-known.
SDTB / H. Hattendorf
Aerospace
The splendid wood carving on the Swedish VASA, from 1628, shows that ships were also intended to be monumental objects and expressions of power.
SDTB / C. Kirchner
Shipping
The motto of the Road Transport exhibition is “On the Move.” Its diverse exhibits illustrate the cultural history of mobility.
SDTB / C. Kirchner
Road traffic
This image shows the great diversity of historical and modern communication devices, from a 19th-century pointer telegraph to a smartwatch of today.
SDTB / C. Kirchner
The network
People, cables, data streams
Sugars are everywhere! Trees and other plants are made of the polysaccharide cellulose.
SDTB / H. Hattendorf
All sugar!
Food - Material - Energy
Rückenwind. Mehr Stadt fürs Rad.
© SDTB
Gearing Up
Toward the Bike-Friendly City
Photo of the Exhibition “The City Alive”, from the Series “Communicate”.
© Andreas Tobias