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Speyer
Technik Museum Speyer is one of Germany's best places to get up close to giant aircraft and spacecraft. On the site of a historic airfield in the cathedral city of Speyer, you can walk through a Lufthansa Boeing 747, step out onto its wing…
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Mannheim
The Technoseum in Mannheim is Baden-Württemberg's state museum of technology and work, and one of Germany's major science and technology museums. Spread over six levels, it tells the story of industrialization and everyday technology throu…
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Berlin
The Tränenpalast ("Palace of Tears") next to Friedrichstraße station in central Berlin was the departure hall of East Berlin's busiest border crossing during the Cold War. East Germans said goodbye here to relatives from the West, never su…
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Bremen
The Universum Bremen is a hands-on science center in northern Bremen where visitors of all ages learn by touching, testing and experimenting. Its striking stainless-steel building, often compared to a whale or a giant mussel, sits beside a…
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Dresden
The Dresden Transport Museum (Verkehrsmuseum Dresden) sits in the historic Johanneum on Neumarkt square, a few steps from the Frauenkirche. Across roughly 5,000 square meters it tells the story of road, rail, water and air travel, from an…
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München
From outside it looks like a small Greek temple on Prinzregentenstraße; inside opens a world of dark walls, gold, ornament and symbols. Villa Stuck was the home and studio of Munich's "prince of painters" Franz von Stuck (1863–1928), who d…
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Leipzig
The Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig (Forum of Contemporary History) is a free museum in the heart of Leipzig that tells the story of dictatorship and democracy in East Germany after 1945. Located on Grimmaische Strasse between the Market…
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Friedrichshafen
The Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen holds the world's most important collection on the history of airships and is one of the top things to do on Lake Constance. Housed in a listed 1930s harbor station right on the waterfront, it tells t…