Day 20...Deutsches Museum

Deutsches Museum located in Munich is Germany's version to our Smithsonian Institute. There are three buildings that house the exhibits. The main hall took us all day, and we skipped the mineral and gas section and breezed through the machinery. There is 10 miles of exhibits here in the main hall, so you can imagine how big this place is. Our favorite and the most interesting exhibit was the mines. Located down in the basement of the museum, the exhibit gives you the idea of you actually walking through an actual mine and how cramped the tunnels get for those that have to work in the mines. It went on forever, at point you think it is over, there is a whole new mine to go through. There is a coal mine and a salt mine, the salt mine was not as elaborate but can tell you was not as cramped as the coal mines.

Space and astronomy exhibit was very interesting. The history of astronomy, to space flight. In the center was a several flat screen monitors showing live pictures of NASA Control Center for the Space Station along with cover current weather patterns.



In the aeronautics section, there are actual fighter jets fighter jets, helicopters and an sliced Boeing 777. The Boeing 777 is my favorite plane of all to travel on. The flight is just a much smoother flight. This is also the largest I have been on. To see the engines that close was pretty cool. The plane allows you to see what is really inside from top to bottom of these planes. Totally kicking myself for not taking a picture.

The timing keeping exhibit was pretty cool as well. There was so much to see and most of it being behind glass, was quite hard to take photos.



The communications section covered all departments of communications from the history of the cell phone (do you remember those huge Motorola flip phones?) to radio and television. Next to computer science, kind of boring but what caught my eye was the data storage made by Telefunken. Got a chuckle out of it.

You definitely need three days to view the entire museum itself, one day per building. Unfortunately we did not have the chance to see the other two. We have decided to skip London and come home a day early. We would only be in London for one day, so we would not have been able to do what we wanted. After 20 days of traveling all over, living out of a suitcase, recycling clothes and of course missing Riley, we were ready to come home. Now to cross our fingers and hope we can get a flight home.