Munich - Event Tip: May 9-11, 2025 = We're celebrating 100 years of the Deutsches Museum!
It's time to celebrate!!! 2025, May 10/11 - a long festival weekend with fun, excitement, variety, and a festive atmosphere in Munich, because 100 years ago, on May 7, 1925, the DEUTSCHE MUSEUM opened on Museum Island on the Isar River
On Friday, May 9, there will be special activities for school children, and on the weekend of May 10/11, there will be a huge anniversary program in and around the museum – with free admission! - One week later, on May 18, the Transport Center behind the Bavaria statue at the Alter Messeplatz will also be celebrating (Deutsch, English, Italiano, Français)
Munich. NOW IT'S CELEBRATION: 100th anniversary! The German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology in Munich is one of the largest science and technology museums in the world in terms of exhibition space. On May 5, 2025, invited guests from politics and society were already on site. On May 9, there will be a special celebration for schoolchildren. And the next weekend, May 10-11, 2025, there will be a huge anniversary program in and around the museum, with free admission for everyone. A spectacular event for all Munich residents, tourists, and guests of the Bavarian capital: exhibitions, workshops, the library, archives, the education department, and the collection management team will offer many attractions. The Munich brewery "Giesinger Bräu" has even produced its own beer edition with a special label for the museum's anniversary. The holidays on Museum Island began on May 5, with an official ceremony attended by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. It continues this weekend ... Below and at the following link you will find further information from the Deutsches Museum about the celebrations: www.deutsches-museum.de/museumsinsel/100-jahre
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| Bridge over the Isar to the Deutsches Museum (entrance) in Munich, photo: Helga Waess (Press photo archive) |
The festival program for the 100th anniversary of the Deutsches Museum on Museum Island
It was May 7, 1925, when the exhibition building on Munich's Museum Island in the Isar River was opened.
We're celebrating 100 years later: from May 9 to 11, 2025
For visitors to Museum Island, this long festival weekend in Munich means fun, excitement, variety, and a festive atmosphere. Join in the celebrations is the motto at the museum – and it's free!
"The anniversary weekend is our gift to the people of Munich – and of course to everyone from the surrounding area and beyond," says Wolfgang M. Heckl, Director General of the Deutsches Museum. "It should be a celebration for everyone—adults, children, and young people. Because knowledge for everyone has always been the core idea of our institution. And we look forward to welcoming many visitors. We already celebrated our 90th birthday ten years ago with around 15,000 people—we can certainly welcome a few more this year."
For the young audience, it starts on Friday, May 9th – then all students and one accompanying adult have free admission.
- In the morning, there are dozens of bookable programs for classes,
- in the afternoon, open workshops and many other hands-on activities are offered.
- The "Spacebuzz" will be there on Friday at the Student Day,
- as will, for example, a booth from the Association of German Engineers – the Deutsches Museum was founded on the sidelines of a VDI meeting
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"We would like to cordially invite all students to join us on this day," says Director General Heckl. "At the anniversary celebrations in 1925, Oskar von Miller ensured that students were given a day off school so they could marvel at the grand parade through the city. We won't be able to do that again – but we can certainly invite the students."
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| The Isar in Munich, photo: Helga Waess (Press photo archive) |
The festival on Museum Island on May 10th and 11th will take place indoors and outdoors.
- One of the main attractions here is likely to be the "Spacebuzz": a truck in which visitors can travel into space wearing VR headsets.
- There's an outdoor science stage with science shows and events throughout the day.
Another attraction:
- In the museum courtyard, there's a glass crane gondola that allows visitors to float up the museum facade.
- The museum garden at the Cornelius Bridge also offers numerous attractions – including bubble shows and face painting for younger children.
- The square next to the sea rescue cruisers will be transformed into a beer garden with a music stage.
- And “Giesinger Bräu” has even produced its own beer edition with a special label for the museum’s anniversary.
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| View from an Isar bridge to the Deutsches Museum in Munich, photo: Helga Waess (Press photo archive) |
The program continues on Saturday and Sunday.
- Tours through the museum's famous workshops and tours of the archive and library.
- In the exhibition building, there are special tours on the museum's history and a small special exhibition spread throughout the building featuring objects from the museum's collection.
- Special musical instruments from the museum are regularly presented.
- The museum's amateur radio operators will be there, as will colleagues from the Radio Museum in Cham, who will let guests listen to the radio as they did 100 years ago.
- And you can even take a look at the museum's impressive construction site – something that will only be available this weekend.
- The French illustrator Lapin, who has created a book on the museum's history and present, will also be a guest on Museum Island for the anniversary, holding drawing workshops and signing his book.
A big party will take place on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
- May 10th also marks the Long Night of Munich Music – and the Deutsches Museum will also have plenty of musical entertainment for anniversary guests.
"You don't have to pay an entrance fee, but you still get a lot on offer," says Dagmar Klauer, who heads the museum's operations and organized the anniversary celebrations.
At 6 p.m., alphorn players will kick off the musical event on the museum's tower.
- Starting at 7 p.m., the "Go Sing Choir" will perform in the museum's aviation hall along with robot guitarist "Hellga Tarr"
- – and all visitors can sing along to "Space Oddity."
- The Munich "Citizens' Singers' Guild," which celebrates its 185th anniversary in 2025 and performed at the museum's opening in 1925, will also provide some great moments in the museum with a piece from Haydn's Farewell Symphony, a walking concert, and the "Ode to Joy."
You can also experience one of the rare Trautonium concerts at the Deutsches Museum:
- Artist Peter Pichler will demonstrate the capabilities of this original synthesizer.
- To round things off, the organizers of the Pulse Festival invite you to dance in the courtyard of the Forum of the Future
- until 11 p.m., before continuing the party until the next morning in the Blitz Club;
For the latter, however, you'll need a ticket for the Long Night of Music.
- The party continues on Sunday during the museum's regular opening hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- There's plenty of music on this day, too – on the music stage in the Schiffsgarten.
Director General Heckl:
"We want a bit of a folk festival atmosphere on Museum Island. Oskar von Miller himself wished that people would flock to the museum like they do to the booths at Oktoberfest. And we hope that will also be the case on our anniversary weekend."
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| Transport Center, Deutsches Museum, Theresienhöhe in Munich - Alter Messeplatz, Photo: Helga Waess (Press photo archive) |
A week later, on May 18th, the Transport Center will also be celebrating:
On International Museum Day, the museum will be offering special tours of particularly historic automobiles.
- The "100 Years – 100 Questions" quiz will be running even longer:
- The museum staff have come up with 100 truly difficult questions about the museum.
- Neither Google nor Chat-GPT has the right answer to these questions.
If you want to give it a try:
- www.deutsches-museum.de/museumsinsel/100-jahre-100-fragen
The questions are truly difficult – but the prize is also impressive:
- A lifetime honorary membership of the Deutsches Museum.
- The membership includes free admission for the winner and their family
- to all museum locations
- plus many other extras.
The complete program for the anniversary celebrations on Munich's Museum Island and all information about the festivities
- www.deutsches-museum.de/museumsinsel/100-jahre
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| Isar at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, photo: Helga Waess (Pressearchiv) |
(Info and original sound: Press release from the Deutsches Museum)
