The Technoseum (former name State Museum of Technology and Work, German: ''Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit'') is a

technology museum A technology museum is a museum devoted to applied science and technological developments. Many museums are both a science museum and a technology museum. Some of the most historically significant technology museums are: *the Musée des Arts ...

Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 2 ...

, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with displays covering the industrialisation of the south-western regions of the country. The museum building was designed by the Berlin architect Ingeborg Kühler. Its planning and construction period lasted from 1982 to 1990.

Permanent exhibitions

Visitors who walk through the building from top to bottom will experience a journey in time from the beginning of the

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in the state of Baden-Württemberg to the present day. Stands portraying the technical, social and political changes since the 18th century include those on clocks, paper manufacture and weaving. There are displays of living and working premises as well as machinery from the fields of industry, transport and the office. These displays enable the visitor to gain a graphic understanding of the far-reaching changes in living and working conditions right up to the present. The ''Elementa'' workshop complements the themes and exhibits of technological, economic and social history shown to date. It is not limited to covering basic scientific principles, but also shows the technical inventions which resulted from various scientific experiments. Opel-Sander RAK1

The Technoseum has a replica of the world's first dedicated rocket-plane on display:

Fritz von Opel Fritz Adam Hermann von Opel (4 May 1899 – 8 April 1971) was a German rocket technology pioneer and automotive executive, nicknamed "Rocket-Fritz". He is remembered mostly for his spectacular demonstrations of rocket propulsion that earned him an ...

on September 30, 1929 was the pilot of the world's first public manned rocket-powered flight with the

Opel RAK.1 The Opel RAK.1 (also known as the Opel RAK.3) was the world's first purpose-built rocket-powered aircraft. It was designed and built by Julius Hatry under commission from Fritz von Opel, who flew it on September 30, 1929 in front of a large crowd ...

, designed by

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. The

Opel-RAK Opel-RAK were a series of rocket vehicles produced by German automobile manufacturer Fritz von Opel, of the Opel car company, in association with others, including Max Valier, Julius Hatry, and Friedrich Wilhelm Sander. Opel RAK is generally con ...

program under the leadership of Fritz von Opel and

Max Valier Max Valier (9 February 1895 – 17 May 1930) was an Austrian rocketry pioneer. He was a leading figure in the world's first large-scale rocket program, Opel-RAK, and helped found the German ''Verein für Raumschiffahrt'' (VfR – "Spacefligh ...

is generally considered the world's first large-scale rocket program with a strong and long-lasting impact on later space pioneers and in particular on

Wernher von Braun Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun ( , ; 23 March 191216 June 1977) was a German and American aerospace engineer and space architect. He was a member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS, as well as the leading figure in the develop ...

.https://www.airforcemag.com/article/0904rocket/ article by Walter J. Boyne in Air Force Magazine, September 1, 2004

Steam train

Running from end-to-end through the middle of the museum is a dual-gauge

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and

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railway track. On this track a

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operates steam-haul trips outside of the museum, over a bridge and then back into the museum again.

Feldbahn railway

Since 2006, between May and October each year a ' narrow gauge trains runs in a loop around the Technoseum park grounds. The track gauge is and there are two regular small diesel locomotives. One locomotive was built in 1961 and worked mining peat in

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; the other one was built in 1964 and matches a locomotive used at the nearby Tonwaren-Industrie Wiesloch brickworks.

Special exhibitions

The selection of visiting or temporary exhibitions have included: * Body World ( Körperwelten) (the first to appear in Europe in 1997/98) *

Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ...

: Technology and Fiction (1999/2000) * Mythos Turn of the Century: human beings, nature and machines in photos 1800 – 1900 – 2000 (2000/01) * The Brain and Thinking: the cosmos in the head (2001/02) * All the Time in the World (2002/03) * Dance and the Banana: Trade and cultural objects (2003/04) * E-Guitar: Electric guitars, musicians, history, culture (2004) * Love of Cars (2004/05) * Understanding

Einstein Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory ...

(2005/06) * View into the Invisible: sub-atomic particles,

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s and

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(2006/07) *

Space Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider ...

Adventure:Break out into the

universe The universe is all of space and time and their contents, including planets, stars, galaxies, and all other forms of matter and energy. The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological description of the development of the universe. Acc ...

(2006/07) * Mannheim on Wheels. Mobility from 1607 to 2007 (2007/08) * Power music (2008)

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