Deutsches Technikmuseum Tickets: German Museum of Technology Prices and Free Entry

An adult ticket to the German Museum of Technology costs 15 euros online and 17 euros at the till, and the same ticket opens Spectrum on that day. The table sets every official price and free entry rule beside the bookable ticket on this page, so you can see what your group will pay before you choose.

The museum's own online tickets cannot be cancelled or moved to another date, and that is the real difference between them and the entry ticket on this page. That one is the museum's own day ticket sold through GetYourGuide, with the Technikmuseum listed as the provider. It costs about the same as the 15 euro online rate and can be cancelled free up to 24 hours before.

If your Berlin days are fixed, the museum shop is the plainest route. If the weather or the children might change the plan, the cancellable ticket is the safer buy. Teenagers and children still need their 0 euro ticket either way, and the free first Friday tickets come only from the museum's own shop.

One ticket does everything here. The entry ticket at $17 covers all 19 permanent exhibitions across the Trebbiner Strasse halls, the outdoor Museum Park behind them, and the Science Center Spectrum in its own building, which surprises people who assume Spectrum is a separate charge. It carries a 4.6 rating from 430 reviews and cancels free up to 24 hours ahead.

Booking anywhere online also beats the till, where the same adult entry is 17 euros against 15 euros booked.

It suits children roughly 5 to 14 better than almost anything else in the city, and that is almost entirely down to Spectrum, where the experiments are self-serve and the instructions are bilingual. Children under 10 must be supervised by an adult. Everyone under 18 enters free, so a family pays adult rates only.

Adults with no interest in physics still get the rail sheds, the aviation levels and the computing gallery, and the museum is one of the few in Berlin where you can watch a printing press or a brewery actually running.

What the ticket does not do is make the site smaller. The museum says the average visit is two and a half hours, but seeing all of it is a full day, and Spectrum alone can fill one with children. There is no guide or commentary included, the park and terrace are open air so weather matters, and large luggage cannot be stored.

If four hours in Kreuzberg is more than your trip allows, the science picks among the best museums in Berlin cover similar ground in a single afternoon.

The landmark is visible before you arrive: a Douglas C-47B Skytrain fixed to the building above the terrace, the Rosinenbomber that stands for the Berlin airlift of 1948 and 1949. Inside the New Building, the aviation hall hangs dozens of aircraft across several levels, from early gliders and a Junkers Ju 52 through Second World War material to post-war jets. The shipping exhibition in the same building holds full inland and sea vessels, including a preserved sailing ship section you walk through.

The two original 1874 roundhouses hold around 40 rail vehicles, Prussian steam locomotives among them, and a Reichsbahn locomotive used for wartime deportations, presented with that history rather than around it.

The quieter halls are where the museum earns its repeat visitors. The computing gallery has a Zuse Z1 reconstruction and early German hardware, next to a telecommunications and network section. Elsewhere there is a sugar exhibition, a jewellery workshop, a paper mill and printing presses, with papermaking, printing and blacksmithing demonstrated live.

The historic brewery and the photo and film technology exhibitions are closed for renovation until further notice. Behind the halls, windmills and craft workshops stand in the twelve hectare Museum Park. Spectrum is the other building: more than 150 experiments across eight themed areas, from light and vision to force and energy, mechanics and motion and music and sound.

Not suitable for

• Monday arrivals, when the whole site is closed
• Anyone with under two hours to spare, since the walk between the halls alone eats a chunk of that
• Travellers with suitcases: there is no cloakroom, and the lockers take coats and bags but not large luggage
• Photo, film or brewing fans: those three exhibitions are closed for renovation

What to bring

• Comfortable shoes, because the site is large and partly outdoors
• A picnic, which the museum explicitly allows you to eat in the Museum Park
• A jacket or sun cover depending on the season, since the park and the terrace are open air
• ID for a concession claim, and proof of age for teenagers on a 0 euro ticket

Not allowed

• Suitcases and large luggage, which have nowhere to go on site
• Backpacks and large bags inside Spectrum, so use the lockers first
• Dogs, except assistance dogs
• Tripods and external flash, though private photos are fine
• Food and drink in the exhibition rooms
• Unsupervised children under 10, who must be accompanied by an adult
• Walk-in entry on the free first Friday afternoon without a booked free ticket

Six things regular visitors do differently from first timers.

• Arrive at opening and start upstairs in aviation, since the ground floor sections soak up the arriving crowd and the aircraft levels fill later
• Treat the free first Friday from 13:00 as a booking, not a walk-in. The free tickets are gone days in advance
• With children, do Spectrum first, or you will spend two hours there and skip the locomotives entirely
• Bring a picnic for the Museum Park rather than queueing at a cafe at one o'clock
• Check which entrance you need before you set off, because Möckernstrasse and Trebbiner Strasse are a long way apart on foot
• Keep your regular adult ticket: until the end of 2026 it brings a companion into the Museum für Naturkunde free