Historical Technical Museum, Peenemünde
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Historisch-Technisches Museum Peenemünde | |
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Former name | Peenemünde Information Centre for History and Technology |
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Established | 1991 |
Location | Peenemünde, Germany |
Type | Technology museum |
Visitors | 222,000 (2008) |
Director | Michael Gericke |
Website | Official website ![]() |
The Peenemünde Historical Technical Museum (
In 2008 the museum had around 222,000 visitors including many school classes. Around €6.5 M were invested in the museum's renovation and expansion; a further investment of €3.9 M is planned. In 2002 the HTM was given the Coventry
Exhibition
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The main purpose of the exhibition in the power station is to be a memorial site where visitors can learn from exhibits, documents and films about the fateful pact made by the rocket engineers around Wernher von Braun with former powers in order to develop the aerospace industry.
In the mid-1960s, building on his technical experience from Peenemünde, Wernher von Braun led the design team which developed the
These experiences formed the basis for the development of nuclear missiles by the Allies after the war. According to documents in the exhibition even Peenemünde experts took part, including in Great Britain and France, where they helped to develop the
As part of a detailed chronicle about the test site, the living and working conditions of the forced labourers and prisoners of war in Peenemünde is illustrated. In addition, there is extensive information on
There is a chapel near the site which commemorates all the victims.
Open air displays
Amongst the showpieces on display in the open-air part of the site are a replica
Exhibits in the Peenemünde Historical Technical Museum include:
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The V-1 flying bomb
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Former Peenemünde railbus in the open air site
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Launching pad for V1
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The Hans Beimler, a former Soviet-built, missileTarantul class operated by the Volksmarine
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V-2 rocket replica
Information boards on the Peenemünder Haken
There is a large number of information boards at historic locations, connected with the Army Research Centre and Luftwaffe test site, spread over the whole Peenemünder Haken ("Peenemünde Hook") and managed by the HTI. The sites include Oxygen Factory II (Sauerstoffwerk II), two former forced labour camps and a halt on the old Peenemünde industrial railway. The displayed objects and terrain are generally freely accessible and often inconspicuous. Several were laid out with the help of youth volunteers.
See also
- Test Stand VII, the principal V-2 launch test facility
References
- ^ "ERIH Entry:The Peenemünde Historical Museum". European Route of Industrial Heritage. 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
Literature
- Bernd Kuhlmann: Peenemünde - Das Raketenzentrum und seine Werkbahn, GVE-Verlag, Berlin, 2. Auflage 2003, ISBN 3-89218-081-4
- Johannes Erichsen und Bernhard M. Hoppe (Hg.): Peenemünde - Mythos und Geschichte der Rakete 1923 - 1989 ; Katalog des Museums Peenemünde, Nicolai-Verlag, Berlin, 2004
- Volkhard Bode und Christian Thiel: Raketenspuren - Peenemünde 1936 - 2004 ; eine historische Reportage (Mit aktuellen Fotos von Christian Thiel), Links-Verlag, Berlin, 5. Auflage 2004, ISBN 3-86153-345-6
External links
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