Your Deutsches Museum ticket for Museum Island
Your ticket covers
- Entry to every exhibition that is open during the renovation, about 20 in all
- Historic and modern aviation, including the Junkers Ju 52
- Spaceflight, with Spacelab and the Helios probe
- Rudolf Diesel’s first diesel engine from 1897
- An Enigma cipher machine and an Apple-I computer from 1976
- About 40 free tours, demonstrations and science shows each day
- Kids’ Kingdom for children aged 3 to 8
- The model railway, which runs several times a day
Opening hours
Daily: 9:00 to 17:00
Last admission: 16:30
Kids’ Kingdom: 9:00 to 16:30
Closed: Shrove Tuesday, Good Friday, 1 May, 1 November, 24, 25 and 31 December, 1 January
Location
Deutsches Museum, Museumsinsel 1, 80538 München. The museum fills an island in the Isar river in central Munich. During the renovation, visitors enter through the glass entrance building at the Corneliusbrücke, at the southern end of the island.
Good to know
- The museum is being renovated in two halves. About half of the building is open now, and the museum plans to reopen the rest in 2028.
- Closed for now: the mine, the high-voltage show, the planetarium, and the physics and astronomy exhibitions.
- Bags larger than A4 stay in the free cloakroom or in a locker. The lockers take a 1-euro coin as deposit.
- Children under 6 enter free. Children under 12 need an adult with them.
- Bring valid proof for every reduced ticket.
- Private photos and video are allowed, including flash. Tripods and selfie sticks are banned.
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Explore the Exhibitions
Spaceflight
A lunar rover and the Spacelab laboratory on level 2
The Spaceflight exhibition fills 1,125 square metres on level 2 with about 290 exhibits and models. It runs in time order, from the first rocket experiments to satellites and space probes.
Early pieces include the rocket car Rak 7 that Max Valier showed in Berlin in 1930 and a V2 rocket engine from 1944. Further on stand the Spacelab laboratory and the Helios probe.
A replica of the Apollo 15 lunar rover sits in a moon landscape with an astronaut figure in the driver’s seat. Museum guides give a 25-minute tour of the exhibition in German. Your ticket covers it, and the museum publishes the day’s times at about 9:20 each morning.
Spaceflight
A lunar rover and the Spacelab laboratory on level 2
The Spaceflight exhibition fills 1,125 square metres on level 2 with about 290 exhibits and models. It runs in time order, from the first rocket experiments to satellites and space probes.
Early pieces include the rocket car Rak 7 that Max Valier showed in Berlin in 1930 and a V2 rocket engine from 1944. Further on stand the Spacelab laboratory and the Helios probe.
A replica of the Apollo 15 lunar rover sits in a moon landscape with an astronaut figure in the driver’s seat. Museum guides give a 25-minute tour of the exhibition in German. Your ticket covers it, and the museum publishes the day’s times at about 9:20 each morning.
FAQ
About half of the building is open, with around 20 exhibitions that include aviation, spaceflight, chemistry, robotics, health and musical instruments. The mine, the high-voltage show and the planetarium are closed, and the Foucault pendulum is dismantled for tower repairs until early 2027. The museum plans to reopen the whole building in 2028.
Online tickets are sold for a set day and entry time. After you enter, you can stay until the museum closes at 17:00.
Plan at least two hours. Many visitors stay the whole day, and the museum’s app offers highlight tours that last one or two hours.
Yes. Kids’ Kingdom, called Kinderreich in German, is a hands-on floor for children aged 3 to 8, and your ticket includes it. It covers almost 1,200 square metres one level below the Modern Aviation hall. The area takes no bookings. A traffic-light display at the entrance shows whether there is room, and every child needs an adult along. The water play area is closed for technical reasons until further notice.
No. Cars, locomotives and bicycles are shown at the Verkehrszentrum, a separate branch of the museum at Am Bavariapark 5 with its own ticket. The Museum Island ticket covers the main building.
Yes. The entrance is step-free, and ramps or lifts reach the visitor areas. The information desk lends wheelchairs, rollators and stools free of charge. The museum marks one exhibition, on energy and engines, as lacking step-free access.
How to get there
The nearest stops are Deutsches Museum on tram 17 and Isartor on every S-Bahn line.
- S-Bahn: Isartor has escalators only. Rosenheimer Platz has a lift.
- U-Bahn: U1 or U2 to Fraunhoferstraße.
- Tram: line 17 to Deutsches Museum, or line 18 to Fraunhoferstraße.
- Bus: lines 52 and 62 to Baaderstraße.
The museum has no visitor car park and advises against driving. The nearest garages are the Isar-Parkgarage at Baaderstraße 6 and the Gasteig-Parkgarage at Rosenheimer Straße 3. Three bays for disabled visitors are at the Boschbrücke.
Bike stands are on the island. On foot, head for the Corneliusbrücke at the southern end of the island, where the entrance building stands. The walk from Isartor takes about five minutes.
The museum app
A free guide to the museum on your phone
The Deutsches Museum App is free for iPhone and Android and works in eight languages, including English, French, Spanish and Italian. It offers highlight tours of one and two hours, a family tour and the day’s programme of tours and shows, which appears at about 9:20 each morning. The museum’s free Wi-Fi, named Deutsches Museum Guest, lets you download the app when you arrive. Rental audio guides cost 5 euros at the information desk.
