The Deutsches Museum and how it succeeds

OCT 01, 1968

With exhibits that combine historical perspective and current practices, the largest and probably best institution of its kind offers an overall view of exact sciences to the widest possible audience.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3034536

R. Hobart Ellis

THE DEUTSCHES MUSEUM in Munich is probably the best scientific and technical museum in the world. In any event, says its scientific director, it is the largest. With its busy and interesting halls of exhibits, it probably introduces more nonscientists and nonphysicists, especially young ones, to science and physics than any other institution.

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