Technology museum

Technisches Museum Wien, entrance hall.

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

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 Deutsche Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik in Munich, founded in 1925; and
• the Technische Museum für Industrie und Gewerbe in Vienna, founded in 1918.

Further technology museums in Germany include the Deutsche Technikmuseum in Berlin-Kreuzberg, the Technoseum in Mannheim, the Technik Museum Speyer and the de. The most prestigious of its kind in Austria is the Technische Museum in Vienna.

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.

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