Last weekend I was in Munich, to visit my brother, sister-in-law, nephew and niece. We had a great time together! Long evening talks… playing with the kids during the day… having a barbecue together… visiting a Biergarten…
On the last day, David and I went to the Deutsches Museum. It’s a general technical/scientific museum, quite large, with areas about ships, airplanes, photography, music, etcetera. And about textile history. It was really interesting!
First we saw some ships and boats. Very impressive!
We then visited the nanotechnology and new technology exhibition. There you could see all kinds of things as they appear under a microscope. For example adhesives, plastic, dyes and… wool!
We then saw a bunch of antique airplanes, which was very cool!
Of course we HAD to visit the musical instruments exhibition. Lots to see, but (as expected) I was not allowed to play on them… Now I want a vertical grand piano!
Then we discovered the textile history exhibition, which was very interesting. One of the first things I saw was:
But that was just the beginning… even though that was an amazing invention in its time. Textile was such a basic necessity for making clothes, sails, etcetera, that automation was very important. Of course, the humble spindle was used in many homes still, but especially by the time of the industrial revolution, people came up with some true gems to make mass production possible.
I was quite tired when we visited, so I didn’t have the brain power to read all the descriptions, but it was already really awesome to look at all these machines. We will definitely visit this museum again in the future, as we didn’t even see half of what it has to offer!
