On June 17, 2023, the Deutschlandmuseum opened its doors in Berlin to take visitors on an interactive journey through 2,000 years of German history. During a one-hour tour, visitors relive defining moments in German history across two floors. The aim of the exhibition is to provide an entertaining time traveling experience without the need for any prior historical knowledge. The new museum is located at Leipziger Platz 7 in Berlin and is now open to guests of all ages.
Feel, smell and touch 2,000 years and 12 epochs
Visitors to the Deutschlandmuseum embark on a journey through 12 epochs of German history. They walk through a historic forest, a medieval castle, a World War I trench, a shopping mall of the Wilhelminian era and a Berlin S-Bahn in the newly reunified Germany.
Each of the twelve themed exhibition rooms features authentic decorations, sounds, smells and lighting effects to immerse guests in realistically designed worlds. This creates deceptively real forests, creaking floorboards in castle walls, the smell of gunpowder, glowing shop windows of the Golden Twenties, rubble in destroyed Berlin in 1945 and more. In addition, 3D projections extend the rooms into the digital world.
The museum works specifically with entertainment factor: display boards, interactive maps and artworks inform about each era. The media presentations run in short loops so that guests can quickly and playfully relive history even without prior knowledge.
History and entertainment worlds merge
At the Deutschlandmuseum, an exhibition combines in-depth historical knowledge of an entire nation with the entertainment factor of a theme park or movie set. To achieve this, Robert Rückel, director of the German Spy Museum, assembled a team that includes renowned experts such as award-winning theme park designer Chris Lange and graphic designers Constantin Bänfer and Jonas Kartenbeck. A team of historians, designers, architects, game designers, planners and many more have been involved in the implementation of the museum.
Next to the Spy Museum, the Deutschlandmuseum complements Berlin’s cultural offerings. It is open daily from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and admission is exclusively by time slot tickets. Online, these tickets are available at discounted prices. Adults pay between 11 and 21 euros, while discounted tickets are available for 8 to 14.50 euros. In addition, discounted combination tickets with the German Spy Museum are offered.
12 Epochs:
- Germania (Forest of the Varus Battle)
- Early Middle Ages (imperial insignia)
- High Middle Ages (knight’s castle)
- Reformation (printing press)
- Enlightenment (Immanuel Kant)
- German Confederation (barricade)
- Empire (trench)
- Weimar Republic (Passage)
- National Socialism (Dark Passage)
- German Partition (Postwar Apartment)
- Two States (Consumer World East and West)
- United Germany (S-Bahn)
