Exhibits in the Deutsches Museum Bonn
The list contains a selection of exhibits in the Deutsches Museum Bonn . Many of the exhibits in the permanent exhibition are linked to well-known scientists, technicians and inventors, including Nobel Prize winners Manfred Eigen , Klaus von Klitzing , Georges JF Köhler , Rudolf Mößbauer , Erwin Neher and Wolfgang Paul .
Exhibits on basic research and analysis technology
6 MeV Betatron
500 MeV synchrotron
Model of a Paul trap
- 6 MeV Betatron , circular accelerator for electrons, designed by Konrad Gund , 1942–1944.
- 5 magnet segments of the 500 MeV synchrotron , ring accelerator , designed by Wolfgang Paul , 1954–1958.
- Ion cage , designed by Werner Neuhauser, Peter Toschek , Martin Hohenstadt, 1978.
- Model of a Paul ion cage (Paul trap), designed by Wolfgang Paul, 1989.
- Replica of an ion cage, originally designed in 1989 by Herbert Walther , 1994.
- Mass spectrometer ESQUIRE from Bruker Franzen Analytik GmbH Bremen, 1994.
- Mössbauer drives for Mössbauer spectroscopy , designed by Egbert Kankeleit , 1958.
- Mößbauer spectrometer from Wissenschaftliche Elektronik GmbH (WissEl) Starnberg, 1994.
- Chip with silicon sample with which Klaus von Klitzing discovered the quantum Hall effect in the high-field magnet laboratory in Grenoble in 1980 (with facsimile of the laboratory notebook).
- Evaporation system A 11 from Leybold-Heraeus GmbH, with which Wolfgang Krätschmer first synthesized fullerenes , 1965.
- Model test setup of a linear accelerator for new elements ( Bohrium , Hassium , Meitnerium , Darmstadtium , Roentgenium and Copernicium ), 1995.
- Replica of the first gas chromatograph , originally constructed in 1947 by Erika Cremer , Ortwin Obleter, Fritz Prior, 1995.
- Dye ring laser, experimental setup by Fritz Peter Schäfer , 1969.
- Georges Köhler's laboratory book on the discovery of monoclonal antibodies , 1975.
- Patch-clamp measuring station by Erwin Neher , Bert Sakmann , 1976.
- Proton magnet from the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY), 1992.
- Neutrino telescope for the registration of neutrino rays, developed by DESY Zeuthen from 1988 to 2008.
- Impedance measuring bridge of an original field jump facility with which Manfred Eigen and Leo de Maeyer carried out relaxation experiments, 1955.
- Evolution machine, a computer-controlled bioreactor , developed by Manfred Eigen, Yuhuru Husimi, Andreas Schwienhorst, 1992.
- Scanning tunnel microscope, with this microscope Wolfgang M. Heckl showed and differentiated the four basic building blocks of DNA individually in 1993 .
Aerospace exhibits
- Materials laboratory of the D2 mission , 1981.
- Model of the small satellite BremSat .
- Model of the ERS-1 earth observation satellite .
- Wolter telescope , X-ray telescope from Carl Zeiss Oberkochen , 1979. The successor model was installed in the ROSAT X-ray satellite .
- Eye tonometer for the D1 mission to measure internal pressure in the eyes, developed in 1966 by Jörg Draeger.
Exhibits on magnetic levitation technology

Transrapid 06 in front of the museum entrance
- Replica of a Kemperschen test stand, designed by Hermann Kemper , 1970.
- Transrapid 06 , was in use at the Transrapid test facility in Emsland , 1982.
Computer technology exhibits
- Drum cabinet of the Z23, designed by Konrad Zuse , 1959. The Z23 is the first computer with transistor technology.
- Computer cabinet of the SUPRENUM (supercomputer for numerical applications), developed by Ulrich Trottenberg , Wolfgang K. Giloi , 1989.
Time measurement exhibits
- Cesium atomic clock CS1, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt , 1969.
- DCF 77 receiver, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, 1974.
Medical technology exhibits
- Sunlight coagulator for operations on the retina of the eye, developed by Gerd Meyer-Schwickerath , 1949.
- Prototype of the rod lens endoscope, developed by Harold H. Hopkins , 1961.
- Amniocentesis needles for amniocentesis , developed by Jan Murken , Karl Knörr, Henriette Knörr-Gärtner, 1969.
- Disinfection equipment for endoscopy, developed by Siegfried Ernst Miederer , 1976.
- MACS magnet for sorting cell mixtures, developed by Stefan Miltenyi, Andreas Radbruch , 1994.
Exhibits on biocybernetics
- Replica of the Spangenglobus experiment in 1950 to investigate the reaction of insects to optical stimuli by Bernhard Hassenstein , Werner Reichardt , 1994.
- Stick insect walking machine , designed by Friedrich Pfeiffer, H.-J. Weidemann, 1992.
- Experimental setup to investigate the walking behavior of a stick insect by Holk Cruse , 1992.
Exhibits for digitizing audio data
- Mixturtrautonium , constructed by Oskar Sala , 1952.
- First audio real-time encoder, development model at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 1978–1984,
- ASPEC 91 Encoder and Decoder (Adaptive Spectral Perceptual Coding), first commercial application of the later MP3 process, 1991.
Radio exhibits
- Heinzelmann radio , post-war radio , 1946.
- PAL demonstration set-up, Walter Bruch developed the PAL color television system, 1963.
- Mesa transistors
Other exhibits
- Rotary piston engine DKM 54, developed by Felix Wankel , 1956.
- First cold light source , developed by Karl Storz , 1960.
- Electron beam cannon EH 1200, developed by Manfred von Ardenne , 1970.
- MBB COBRA , the first guided anti-tank missile
Web links
Commons : Deutsches Museum Bonn - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Five main themes - five areas. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 (The assignment of the exhibits to main topics differs from the assignment in the museum.).
- ↑ a b c d e f Trapped elementary particles. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Mössbauer effects. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Measure regulations. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ a b ElementARchitekten. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 7, 2018 .
- ↑ a b First publication. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 7, 2018 .
- ↑ a b cell culture. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c visual aids. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Insight. (PDF; 6.34 MiB) Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 (exhibition text).
- ↑ a b c The Newton of the Blade of Grass. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ a b All Powers. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ a b space travel as earth exploration. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Pending proceedings. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Arithmetic Artist. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d guest worker. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ a b ZeitStandard. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d Between life and machine. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Genetics and Hippocratic Oath. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c KlangWerkStätten. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Entertainment Policy. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Motor alternatives. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Hot irons. Deutsches Museum Bonn, accessed on March 6, 2018 .