Learning through play in interactive museums

Interactive museums use the concept of learning through play, which children naturally use to understand the world. Children reenact situations and scenarios from movies or everyday life. Acquiring knowledge through fun and putting yourself in a strange situation helps you to understand and remember something better.

Interactive museums use the concept of learning through play to convey content quickly and more consistently. For example, exchange ideas about the everyday life of people in the GDR, recreate an experiment yourself or play on an old console. This not only gives you a great experience, but the transfer of knowledge through the museum happens almost by itself.

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This philosophy also has Computer Games Museum

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The world's first computer games museum was opened in Berlin in 1997 and has a permanent exhibition on digital interactive entertainment culture. Over 300 exhibits on the history of computer games await visitors to play, experiment and learn. Admire the original data carriers with computer games and applications, consoles and computer systems, magazines, vending machine systems, literature, media art objects, archival materials, merchandising articles and video materials.

The Computer Games Museum's exhibitions are made possible by the Förderverein für Jugend und Sozialarbeit (fjs e.V.), which has been committed to collecting and preserving digital interactive culture for more than 21 years and making it accessible to an audience of millions. Computer games are an important part of our culture shaped by digital technologies. The Computer Games Museum is actively committed to communicating the culture and history of digital games to a wide audience through exhibitions, media education offerings, events and publications. The aim is to deepen the understanding of digital interactive entertainment media and thus increase media literacy.

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that Deutschlandmuseum Berlin invites visitors to travel back in time

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Here you can experience 2000 years of German history in 12 historical periods in a single visit. You've never seen a museum like this before: You'll find life-size, detailed worlds to immerse yourself in. Using modern technology, a 4D museum was created here. Vast views, ambient sounds and even smells bring the historic places to life. Here you'll learn how people lived back then by physically swapping into their world. Start in antiquity, where Germanic tribes join forces against the Romans, touch models of the first book printing and witness the construction of the wall. The unique combination of education and amusement park, innovation and history make up the Deutschlandmuseum.

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Right next to the Deutschlandmuseum is German Spy Museum

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Where the Berlin Wall divided the city until 1989, the museum provides a unique insight into the shadowy realm of espionage. Visitors are provided with the latest technologies to uncover the sophisticated and sometimes bizarre methods used by agents and secret services in a multimedia and interactive way. Germany's only spy museum offers a thrilling journey through time from biblical scouts to the present and future in the middle of the spy capital. Decipher secret codes, pass the laser course, get your “secure” password cracked and hack your favorite website!

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One of the most visited interactive museums in Berlin is the GDR Museum

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Here, visitors get up close and personal with the everyday life of a bygone state. In doing so, history is brought to life and yet scientifically based. Authentic originals and globally unique interactive installations await you, which you can touch and try out. How about sitting in a Trabi driving simulator, in an original Trabant P 601. You can also look at a faithfully furnished prefabricated apartment with five rooms to immerse yourself in people's everyday lives. In addition, there are numerous interactive games for young and old, the monumental mural “Praise of Communism” and the opportunity to touch many of the exhibits.

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that Cold War Museum Unter den Linden brings the historic era of the Cold War to life in Berlin

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In this complex of topics of great international importance, visitors learn something about nuclear armament and deterrence between the Western powers and the Eastern Bloc. This also includes the various proxy disputes and worldwide espionage, but especially the 'peaceful' competition between systems in science, research, technology, sports and business. Prominent examples are certainly iconic moments, such as the 'Space Race', the race to the moon, or the Olympic Games. Here you can discover the many facets of the Cold War. The Cold War Museum in the Cold War capital Berlin invites you on an exciting journey through time. This important era can be accessed and experienced here, in the heart of the capital, across generations, and in a pioneering way as a high-tech museum 4.0. The Cold War Museum is virtual, interactive, and spectacular, and you can experience both sides of the same story in many ways.

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The German Technology Museum is also very popular with school groups

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Here, visitors will find many exciting and interactive exhibitions. For example, do a workshop about scooping paper and learn about the materials you need, but also how to use resources sustainably and why that is important. Or would you rather recreate experiments on electricity and optics in the “Milestones School Lab” and experiment yourself? The interactive range of workshops and guided tours with special educational offerings for school groups is very diverse. Take a guided tour on aviation, communications technology or sugar, for example.

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