German Spy Museum

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German Spy Museum
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place Berlin coordinates: 52 ° 30 '32.1 "  N , 13 ° 22' 44.3"  EWorld icon
Art
opening 19th September 2015
operator
German Espionage Museum DSM GmbH
management
Robert Rückel
Website

The German Spy Museum (also: German Spy Museum Berlin ) is a private museum in Berlin district of Mitte , the first on September 19, 2015 Spy Museum Berlin opened. It is located in the Leipziger Platz  9 building, directly at the Potsdamer Platz underground station . The museum shows the history of espionage and intelligence services around the world in an interactive and multimedia exhibition . Particular emphasis is placed on the history of espionage in Berlin during the Cold War and current developments in the present.

Permanent exhibition

On around 3000 square meters, the museum shows more than 500  exhibits from its own holdings of more than 1200 items, as well as loans. The exhibits include, for example, two original cipher type Enigma (machine) , rare CIA - and KGB cameras and props from James Bond films. Most of the exhibits are original and are supplemented by replicas . The presentation of the exhibits is supported by multimedia installations . Most of the exhibits can be experienced through 360 ° touchscreens and most of the exhibition cabinets use transparent liquid crystal displays with information on them . In addition, interactive stations offer visitors the opportunity to try out espionage techniques for themselves.

Exterior view
Spywatch
Enigma (cipher machine)
Observation satellite
Model of an agent exchange on the Glienicke Bridge
Laser course

The exhibition includes the following thematic focuses:

  1. The history of espionage from ancient times to modern times
  2. First World War
  3. Second World War
  4. Cryptology
  5. Cold War (intelligence services in East and West Germany )
  6. Agent equipment
  7. Dead mail boxes and containers
  8. Eavesdropping devices
  9. Reproduction devices
  10. Camera hiding places
  11. Spy cameras
  12. Animals as spies
  13. Conspiracy theories and espionage
  14. Glienicke Bridge ( agent exchange )
  15. News services and love ("honey traps")
  16. Guns and poison
  17. Espionage in fiction
  18. Double agents
  19. Intelligence operations
  20. Espionage in the present and future

There are also the following installations:

  • Spywatch (simulated surveillance in the entrance area)
  • Agent portraits
  • "Contemporary witness steles " (hanging elements with eyewitness interviews)
  • lie detector
  • Crack the safe
  • Old encryption techniques (Skytale, encryption disk)
  • Interactive message encryption station
  • Password hacker
  • "Observation Trabant " (vehicle with infrared camera )
  • Morse station
  • Model of the Glienicke Bridge
  • Spy Map (digital map for locating espionage activities in Berlin during the Cold War )
  • Laser course (an obstacle course consisting of laser beams)
  • Search for bugs
  • Secret writing laboratory
  • " Hacker station" (simulation of website hacks)
  • Marble run (interactive installation for the evaluation of big data)

In the exit area there is a shop, a café and a cinema.

Emergence

After twelve years of planning, development and conception by the founder Franz-Michael Günther, the Berlin Spy Museum opened in the public building on Leipziger Platz on September 19, 2015. After the operating company Welt der Spione GmbH went bankrupt   in April 2016, the museum was finally taken over in July 2016 by a new operating company under the direction of Robert Rückel, founder of the GDR Museum Berlin , and renamed the German Spy Museum . In 2018, the permanent exhibition began to be completely revamped, adding new interactive installations, rare exhibits and media content. On August 14, 2019, the museum received its one millionth visitor. The revision of the exhibition was completed in November 2019. In total, the museum now has more than 30 interactive installations. In 2020 the German Spy Museum was nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Collection archive. In: German Spy Museum. Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
  2. ^ Franz Michael Rohm: German Spy Museum Berlin: The exciting world of James Bond. January 31, 2020, accessed June 17, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Preliminary insolvency proceedings "Welt der Spione GmbH" (Spymuseum Berlin). Retrieved July 30, 2016 .
  4. ↑ The Spy Museum Berlin becomes the German Spy Museum. In: pressnetwork.de. Retrieved July 30, 2016 .
  5. ↑ In new splendor: The First World War in the German Spy Museum. In: German Spy Museum. January 11, 2018, accessed April 27, 2019 .
  6. ↑ dpa: Spy museum celebrates one millionth visitor. Berliner Morgenpost , August 14, 2019, archived from the original on September 15, 2019 .;
  7. ↑ Sabine Flatau: German Spy Museum in Berlin: Everything you can experience there. November 26, 2019, accessed January 16, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Nominations 2020 - EMYA2020 in Cardiff - The European Museum of the Year Award. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .