Technology museum

A technology museum is a museum devoted to applied science and technological developments.[1] Many museums are both a science museum and a technology museum.

Technisches Museum Wien, entrance hall.

The most historically significant technology museums in Europe are:

• the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris, founded in 1794;
• the Science Museum in London, founded in 1857;
• the Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik in Munich, founded in 1903; and
• the Technisches Museum für Industrie und Gewerbe in Vienna, founded in 1918.

Further technology museums in Germany include the Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin-Kreuzberg, the Technoseum in Mannheim, the Technik Museum Speyer and the Technikmuseum Magdeburg. The most prestigious of its kind in Austria is the Technisches Museum in Vienna.[2]

Many other independent museums, such as transport museums, cover certain technical genres, processes or industries, for example mining, chemistry, metrology, musical instruments, ceramics or paper.

References

1. "science/technology museum". Phorio standards website. Phorio Systems Corporation. Retrieved 4 November 2013. External link in |work= (help)
2. Lackner, Helmut (2011). "Das technische Museum" [The technology museum]. 'Ferrum: Nachrichten aus der Eisenbibliothek' (in German). 83: 7–20.

This article is based upon a translation of the German language version as at November 2013.