Deutsches Museum

Last night, Zach and I decided to have an easy night, so we stopped by the hotel restaurant after work.  It... wasn't that great.  Much better than other hotels I've been to, but not as good as the restaurants we've been too.  Guess you can't win 'em all.

Today, however, we caught the tram nearby the hotel and made our way over to the Deutsches Museum, which is the world's largest science and technology museum.  We got there around 10:00 and made a beeline for the Astronomy floors, on which we spent about two and a half hours reading every sign and playing with every interactive exhibit.  We also found a computer that had an astronomy quiz.  We actually managed to answer 63% of the questions despite the fact that there were no English translations!  We were able to use a lot of context clues to figure out most of the German words, and on the rest we just guessed.  It was really fun.  After that we realized we needed to move a little quicker if we wanted to get through the whole museum, so we went to the Physics area and spent another hour and a half in what I would consider the coolest part of the museum.  I guess we didn't really move much quicker, but the physics area had hundreds of hands-on exhibits to demonstrate fundamental physics, like momentum, inertia, mass, conservation of energy, waves, aerodynamics, and much, much more.  What made it extra fun was trying to figure out what each exhibit was demonstrating because very few had actual English translations.  I think, once again, we did a pretty good job.

Fundamental physics.

The rest of the time at the museum we spent going through the Historic Aviation (Luftfahrt), Energy Technology, Metals, Machine Tools, Power Machinery, Foundry, Marine Navigation, Environment, Electric Power, and Nanotechnology.  We still didn't even make it through the whole museum, but we were able to hit everything we wanted to before we left at 4:30.  Afterwards, we were feeling very hungry (we skipped lunch) so we went back to Marienplatz to Der Ratskeller to get a nice hearty meal.  Both of us had the Grillwürstl Schmankerl, a "great sampler of all delicious Bratwursts we offer, like Nuremberg style Bratwurst, skinless veal sausage Wollwurst, smoked Beef-Beerknackbratwurst, Schnapps Bratwurst, grilled bacon, sauerkraut, [and] mashed potatoes."  Alongside a full liter of Löwenbraü dunkel, this hit the spot.  Once again, another great meal.

After catching the U-Bahn back to the hotel, it's now time to digest and prepare for some Munich sight-seeing tomorrow.  Gute Nacht!

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